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CHRISTIAN VIRTUES, 



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DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS, ASSOCIATIONS, MISSIONS, LABORS, TRANS- 
FORMATIONS, AND ULTIMATE REWARDS. 



ILLUSTRATED ALLEGORY 



BY EEV. D. D.'BUCK 



'Instruction and Amusement may combine, 
As Heat is blended with the beams that shine." 



NEW YORK AND AUBURN: 
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN. 

New York: 25 Park Kow— Auburn: 107 Genesee-st 

1856. 







Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty-six, 

BY D. D. BUCK, 

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AUBURN : 

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TO 

THE INTELLIGENT AND PURE-MINDED 

THIS BOOK 

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WITH THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST HOPE AND PRAYER, THAT ITS FREQUENT 

AND CAREFUL PERUSAL MAY CONTRIBUTE MATERIALLY 

TO THEIR 



CONTENTS. 



PART I. 

PAGE. 

The Proem, 9 



CHAPTER I. 
Truth and his Vocation, If 

CHAPTER II. 
Liberty and his great Exploits, . . . . .2*7 

CHAPTER III. 
Faith and Hope, and their appropriate Influence, . . 87 

CHAPTER IV. 
Charity and Mercy in their Respective Missions, . . 49 

CHAPTER V. 
Justice and his Vocation, ....... 6*7 

CHAPTER VI. 
Contemplation and Impulse in their Different Vocations, . 85 

CHAPTER VII. 
Zeal and his Enterprlse, 109 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Industry and his Doings, 121 



6 CONTENTS. 

PAGE. 

CHAPTER IX. 
Patience and her Adventures, . . . . . .131 

CHAPTER X. 
Humility, the Family Monitress, . . . . . 14*7 

CHAPTER XI. 
Virtue and Temperance in their Labors and Relations. . 167 



PART II. 

The Proem, . . . . . . . . .179 

CHAPTER I. 
The Divine Family in a Group, 183 

CHAPTER II. 
Truth and Liberty, and their New Offices and Honors, . . 195 

CHAPTER III. 
Faith and Hope, and their Queenly Offices, . . . 203 

CHAPTER IV. 
Charity and Mercy, Associated Empresses, . . . .211 

CHAPTER V. 
Zeal and Industry, and their New Offices, .... 223 

CHAPTER VI. 
Patience and Humility, and their Imperial Offices, . . 233 

CHAPTER VII. 
Impulse and her New Office, 243 



CONTEXTS. 7 

PA0E. 

CHAPTER VIII. 
Contemplation's Promotion, ...... 261 

CHAPTER IX. 
Justice and his Reward, ....... 269 

CHAPTER X. 

Virtue and Temperance, and their New Names and Offices, . 283 



PART I. 



ANALYSIS. 

Source of all the Virtues — The Virtues contemplated as Children 
of one Family — Religion as a Mother in the midst of her Children — 
General Likeness — Special Adaptation — Differences Explained — 
Equality in Diversity — Present Position not the sure Criterion of 
Future Destination — Different Human Temperaments — Intention 
and Use — Illustrations — Swimming and Flying — Envy among the 
Fishes and the Fowls — Uses of Variety — Ambi-Adaptation is Semi- 
Adaptation — Examples — Variety the Universal Order — Variety the 
Development of Divinity — Eternal because Divine — Intention of 
the Allegory — Leading Effort — The Millennium in Miniature — The 
Millennium in Full. 



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True Religion must be regarded as the source of all 
the virtues and graces that ennoble and adorn the human 
soul in this world, and fit it for its final exaltation and 
heavenly bliss. And the different graces and virtues may 
be contemplated as a numerous family of lovely sisters 
and brothers, being ail equally the offspring of a divine 
parentage. 

Hence, it may not be unlawful to represent Religion 
as a Divine Mother, surrounded by a numerous com- 
pany of sons and daughters, all possessing peculiar traits 
of family resemblance, all appropriately laboring to pro- 
mote the Mother's pleasure, and all equally interested in 
the general weal. 

And every one of these divine children may be sup- 
posed to be especially adapted and characteristically de- 
voted to some specific department in the general enter- 
prise of redeeming the fallen, wretched race, and securing 
their final salvation. And as no two of these divine chil- 
dren are just alike, each possessing some rich endowment 
which is not inherited by any other ; so each may be re- 
garded as being duly qualified and specially designed for 
the accomplishment of some important and peculiar part 
which could not be well performed by any of the rest. 



12 THE PROEM. 

And the diversity of characteristics among the several 
virtues may also be appropriately represented as differ- 
ences of disposition, ability, and taste in this numerous 
association of sons and daughters. One is better skilled 
in intellectual effort ; another is better formed for physi- 
cal strength ; and another seems better qualified for gov- 
erning the heart. One is constitutionally adapted to 
lead ; another is just as naturally formed to follow. One 
seems born to rule ; another to obey. One is apparently 
more divine in development here, without being more 
truly divine in parentage, or more certain of superior dig- 
nity hereafter. 

So, on the other hand, one appears to be less happy ; 
another, less wise ; and another compares unfavorably in 
respect to something else. But by no means must it fol- 
low, that, because an office may appear less dignified and 
happy here, it should be esteemed as being less impor- 
tant, or less desirable, or the less likely to be superior in 
the world above, where relations may be reversed, and 
character displayed in such new and smiling fight as may 
cause it to appear completely new. As mountain sum- 
mits bathed in mid-day light, may gleam with glory un- 
displayed by night. 

And the different virtues may also be considered as the 
various types and developments of character exhibited in 
this imperfect yet beautiful world. In some the leading 
grace is Charity ; and it imparts its influence to all the 
rest. In some Faith appears superior, and gives a cor- 
responding character to the whole life. Others are dis- 
tinguished for Humility, and carry about them such a 
sweet display of meekness and self-forgetfulness, that it is 



THE PROEM. 13 

their personal distinction to be apparently lost among 
those they deem their superiors in goodness, wisdom, or 
ability. 

Some persons are distinguished for their long enduring, 
uncomplaining patience. All their distinctive excellence 
appears embodied in this. Without a marked ability to 
do, they are surprisingly enabled to endure ; and become 
as famous, and perhaps as useful, too, in their meek sub- 
mission to their sufferings, as if they were of brilliant rep- 
utation for wisdom, wit, or strength. While some are 
noted for their burning, energetic zeal, others are famous 
for their industry, while they pursue a quiet, unobtrusive 
way, that is just as likely to secure success, and be a 
blessing to the needy race, as if it were an open, boister- 
ous manner, more designed to call attention to what they 
meant to do, than to perform the work required which 
they should be constantly doing. 

All are not equally excellent in every place ; but each 
in his own sphere is best. A bird is qualified nobly to fly; 
but is not a very good swimmer in the waters. A fish, 
however, can swim very easily ; but it cannot fly so well 
as a bird. The evident reason is, that one moves by fins, 
and the other by wings : wings for the atmosphere, fins 
for the waters. But shall the nimble fish, sporting in the 
waters, envy the sprightly bird, darting through the air, 
and think itself less a creature of the Divine Hand than 
the bird, because it cannot fly ? As well might the bird 
envy the brilliant fish, as it darts gleaming through the 
flashing waters, and think that birds are less divine in or- 
igin than fishes, because they cannot swim. Each is per- 
fect in itself; each adapted to its own element ; each ful- 



14 THE PROEM. 

filling its original design ; and each beheld with equal fa- 
vor by the Omnipresent Eye. 

If all were birds of the air, who would people the wa- 
ters ? How would the liquid firmament be adorned with 
living stars ? If all were fishes, who would inhabit the 
skies, and fill the ethereal orchestre with melody? Fishes 
for the waters, and birds for the air ; but the one must 
move by pinions, and the other must move by fins. 

True, there are some fowls that can both fly and swim ; 
but they can neither fly nor swim so well as those which 
are adapted to do but the one. And there are some 
fishes that have both wings and fins ; but they are not 
perfectly adapted either to the waters or the air. Just 
in proportion as they are fitted to fly in the air, they are 
defective in their adaptation to move in the water. And 
it is likely that they lose more than they gain by their 
ambi-adaptation : Indeed, may it not be more properly 
termed a semi-adaptation ? 

So with the different virtues and graces ; and so with 
the peculiar temperaments among good men : everything 
good is of God, and is designed to promote goodness. 
Nothing was formed in vain ; and the variety that glows 
in the starry heavens, that sports in the broad oceans, that 
flits through the atmosphere, that walks, or creeps, that 
ripens, or blooms in the earth, — this same variety, origi- 
nally ordained and devised, should be expected and de- 
sired in the world of heart and mind, as well as in the 
world of earth and water. 

Variety is the universal development of Divinity. It 
results not from accident, but from design. And why 
designed ? because first desired. And why desired ? be- 



THE PROEM. 15 

cause first preferred. And why preferred ? "because most 
agreeable to original taste : or, in other words, most in 
harmony with the Divine Mature that originated all. 
Variety, then, being most agreeable to the unchangeable 
Creator ; being a prominent characteristic of all the de- 
velopments of Himself; if God be immutable, must not 
variety be eternal ? Why then complain of it, or wish it 
were otherwise? Hath not God pronounced it "good?" 

The governing intention of the Allegory, is, to make a 
true exhibition of every one in his or her own appropri- 
ate office, and 'to show how indispensable every one is; 
to what ultimate perfection every one may be destined ; 
and thus to inculcate confidence and good feeling among 
good people of every Christian order, and of every na- 
tive temperament and taste. 

It will be the constant endeavor to persuade every man 
to esteem others better than himself; and to look with 
intelligent charity to discover — not so much the differ- 
ences among men — but to discover all those holy resem- 
blances which indicate and prove a family relationship 
among all the spiritual children of God. 

In this way may heaven begin upon the earth. This, 
in miniature, is the Millennium indeed, however circum- 
scribed and obscure. This, universally extended, is the 
.Millennium in full, however long it may be in arriving, 
and by whatever means it may be introduced. May the 
Most Merciful hasten it in his own time ! 



fellr ani |is fflmtiim. 

ANALYSIS. 

The Eldest Born — Personal Appearance — Vocation — Nature and 
Range of Instruction — Particular Themes — Character and Manner — 
Best Dependences — Truth in Disguise — Reasons — Recognized by 
his Friends — The Tessera and its Use — Prospect of Success — Times 
and Seasons — Specific Duties — Truth a "Witness — Truth before 
Heathen Temples — Truth under the Palm Tree — Truth in the Pa- 
gan Hut — More Methods than One — Influence upon Himself — 
Eulosrium. 



TRUTH. 

"As gleams the Orient with dawning light, 
"When Morn begins his triumph over Xight ; 
As glows the zenith with meridian ray, 
When Sol resplendent rules the middle day ; 
So Truth, which erst as early twilight gleams, 
Shall glow at last with full meridian beams." 

Anonymous. 

"The grave's dark portal 
Soon shuts this world of shadows from the view ; 
Then shall we grasp realities immortal 
If to the Truth within us we are true." 

Mrs. Embury. 

"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in 
Truth." 3 John, verse 4. 

" I rejoice greatly that I found of thy children walking in Truth." 
2 John, verse 4. 



THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES. 



CHAPTER I. 

fatfo ani Ms Dotation 



fBELIGION'S eldest born is 

U? Truth. With a noble, intellectual brow, 
and an eye of piercing brilliancy ; with an ex- 
pression of habitual composure, and an attitude 
of sublime dignity, he seems not unworthy of 
his exalted position, as the first born of all the 
Divine Family. 

Truth's peculiar vocation is universal in- 
struction. Limited to no distinct department, 
but permitted to range as widely as venture- 
some inquiry, he teaches the present and the 
future, dwells particularly upon the past, and 
reveals the characters and the doings of God 
and man. 

In the Divine Family, however, Truth usu- 



20 TRUTH AJTD 

ally communicates of man, in his relations with 
God, and of God, in his relations with man. 
The original creation, the first temptation, the 
lamentable defection, the promise and the ac- 
complishment of human redemption, the deal- 
ings of common Providence with the ancient 
nations, and of special Providence with the He- 
brew people, the biographies of the ancient 
saints and worthies, the wickedness and wretch- 
edness of sinners of olden time ; — all these, and 
innumerable other kindred themes, he teaches 
in the department of general history and social 
law. 

But there are some subjects on which Truth 
more particularly dwells : such as the corrup- 
tion and guilt, the bondage and danger of in- 
dividual transgressors. In this department he 
intends to be as explicit and personal as po- 
liteness will allow; and there are some who 
could never endure his searching examinations 
and his impartial revelations. Some, indeed, 
have been convinced to their own entire satis- 
faction that Truth is sometimes so unmindful 
of the feelings of his auditors, that he even slays 
them as with a two-edged sword. Yet no one 
could ever discover that he was excited by an- 



HIS VOCATION. 21 

ger or revenge ; for he is generally calm in all 
his exercises, though very keen in his percep- 
tions, and inflexibly firm in all his ways. 

Truth is rarely precipitate ; never trifling or 
boisterous ; and has never been known to con- 
tradict himself. It is certain, however, that his 
declarations at one time may seem to be diamet- 
rically at variance with his teachings at another 
time. But it always appears in time that his 
apparently contradictious affirmations are equal- 
ly and evidently true. This is inexplicable to 
some, incredible to others, but demonstrable to 
all. 

Truth depends for success less on strength 
than time ; more on candor than cunning ; more 
on the intrinsic evidence of what he teaches, 
than on extrinsic agencies and arts. He aims 
to be perfectly sincere and impartial ; and 
would not knowingly prevaricate or exaggerate. 
He is occasionally depressed, and seemingly 
overthrown ; yet he is usually hopeful, and con- 
fident of ultimate success. 

Truth has been compelled sometimes to hide 
himself in obscure places, and even — if reports 
be true — to go about in disguise. Without 
stopping to disprove, or to confirm, these un- 



22 TRUTH AND 

certain reports, one thing may be relied upon 
as undeniable, — that Truth greatly prefers 
publicity to obscurity, and would rather go en- 
tirely naked, than in disguise. And the proba- 
bility is that he is not so frequently found in 
disguise himself, as others are, who go about in 
his raiment, and passing by his name. 

Yet as Truth is sometimes proscribed and 
banished, and it would be dangerous to be 
found abroad, it may be admitted that he does 
sometimes, for prudential reasons, so obscure 
or even conceal his face, that none but his most 
intimate friends can recognize him. These, 
however, have no difficulty in detecting his 
presence, however obscured or disguised ; for 
there is a certain indescribable, and almost in- 
conceivable something — it is hardly known 
what — that enables his intimate friends to know 
when he is with them, even when a stranger 
would not see any reason to suspect it. Wheth- 
er it is a peculiar aroma around his person, or 
some significant sign addressed to the eye, or 
a peculiarity of tone detected by the accus- 
tomed ear, remains a secret to the uninitiated, 
and will probably never be divulged. 

One of the methods which Truth takes to 



HIS VOCATION. 23 

keep up tlie correspondence with his friends, is 
the Oriental Tessera,* in which is engraved 
mysteriously a new name, which no man know- 
eth but he that receiveth it. It answers as a 
password, and token of recognition, by means 
of which he gains admission to all societies that 
truly reckon themselves as belonging to his 
original fraternity. 

It is never prudent for a man to array him- 
self in opposition to Truth ; for " Truth is 
mighty and must prevail." Sooner or later he 
will vanquish his foes, and triumph over them 
all. He is by some thought to be rapidly gain- 
ing upon his enemies; but others think he is 
not making much progress at present. All, 
however, who have been thoroughly instructed 
by him, are fully assured that, eventually, either 
by sudden conquest, or by gradual advance- 
ment, he will have a final and universal triumph. 
Concerning "the times and the seasons," he has 
not yet been permitted to speak very distinct- 
ly ; but concerning the fact itself of a final 
triumph, he has communicated of the future so 
that the pupil in his a-b-abs can easily compre- 
hend it. 

* Rev. ii. 17 



24 TEUTH AND 

Truth has some specific duties to perform in 
the great work of renovation ; it is his special 
province to oppose Error, Superstition, and De- 
ceit. He is commissioned to destroy all false 
religions, and establish the true everywhere in 
the world. He is the principal witness in the 
great controversy that has been agitating the 
world for so many ages. He is not only the 
official Instructor for all the members of the 
Divine Family, but the general Teacher of the 
whole world. It is expected that he will inter- 
est himself in all the endeavors to enlighten and 
meliorate the condition of benighted nations. 

In obedience to his commission, Truth some- 
times travels to heathen lands, and may be seen 
standing before the crowded gates of pagan 
temples, lifting up his voice as a trumpet, and 
proclaiming to the deluded millions the glad 
tidings of salvation for lost and wretched men, 
through the wonderful incarnation, and myste- 
rious death, of the One who is mightier than 
the princes of the earth, and holier than the 
angels in heaven. 

Truth has not unfrequently been seen sitting 
under an oriental palm tree, in earnest conver- 
sation with some weary pilgrim who had fainted 



HIS VOCATION. 25 

by the way, on his toilsome pilgrimage to some 
far off shrine.. And he has been known to en- 
ter the low door of some heathen hut, and sit 
familiarly with sable pagans, conversing with 
them of subjects that were as strange and thrill- 
ing, as they were cheering and new. 

Truth is not content with teaching by pre- 
cept merely ; he understands the ancient adage, 
" Actions speak louder than words," and earn- 
estly endeavors to live in strict conformity with 
its spirit and teaching. Hence his outward 
deportment is sincere, immaculate, and true. 
All his words, official and unofficial, are well 
considered and delivered as under oath. He 
will not cloak or dissemble his own faults, or 
the failings of his friends. He is in all re- 
spects truly upright, and unchangeably re- 
liable. 

Such is Truth, Religion's eldest born ; the 
general Teacher of all the sons and daughters 
of the Mother Divine. The Mother is proud 
of her Son ; the Son is proud of his Mother. 
Each is worthy of the other; and each in- 
creases the other's beauty and worth. Happy 
Mother, to produce such a Son ! Happy Son, to 
have sprung from such a Mother ! 
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f itertj ani |is (Swat fatybxti. 

ANALYSIS. 

Relative Age — Like and Unlike Truth.— How he Resembles, and 
how he Differs^ — Personal Looks — Disposition — Commission — Am- 
bition — Cannot be Enslaved — Why Impossible — Peter's Escape from 
Prison an Illustration — His Guardian Angel — His Enemies and their 
Efforts — A Standing Miracle — Mortal yet Undying — Terrible 
"Wounds — Terrible Weapons — Cannot be Killed except by Annihi- 
lation — Mythological Divinities — Warring Angels — A Horrible 
Gash — How Healed — Nature of Spirits — Truth Stranger than Fic- 
tion — Spiritual Bondage — Spiritual Freedom — Liberty's Law — 
How to Gain and Retain Freedom — Liberty Reposing — Connexion 
of Truth and Liberty — Mutual Adaptation — Comparison by Contrast. 



LIBERTY. 

" Resplendent Liberty I our heart's desire, 
Thy clarion's echoes thrill our ardent ear ; 

Our soul is kindled by thy words of fire ; 

The captive spurns his chains when thou art near. 

Thy gleaming banner on the breeze unfurled, 

With every shiver shakes the wondering world ! " 

Anonymous. 

"0 Liberty! heaven's choice prerogative! 
True bond of laws ! thou social soul of property I 
Thou breath of reason! life of life itself! 
For thee the valiant bleed ! " 

Brooke. 

" O give me Liberty ! 
For were even Paradise my prison, 
Still I should long to leap the crystal walls." 

Dry den. 

"And I will walk at Liberty. — Ps. cxix. 45. 

" Ye have been called unto Liberty." — Gal. v. 13. 




CHAPTER II. 

f iforfg antr jib (Swat (gqploik 

EXT in order in the Divide 

Family may be noticed a noble son whose 
name is Liberty. He seems a little younger 
than his brother Truth, whom he slightly re- 
sembles, but less in disposition and genius, 
than in form and features. He is not less 
lovely and loved, but less contemplative and 
dignified. His countenance is very animated, 
and his limbs very athletic ; and his whole per- 
son shows that he was formed for the most vig- 
orous exertions, and the most daring exploits. 
Himself greatly delighting in unfettered free- 
dom, loathing every manacle, and spurning 
every yoke, * he is the energetic and fearless 
champion for all the oppressed. He usually 
reposes on his armor when he rests, and rises 
up in armor cap-a-pie when he renews his toil. 
His panoply is as good for self-defense, as for 
the slaughter of enemies. 



30 LIBERTY AND 

It is Liberty's especial mission to contend 
with Tyranny in all his flattering disguises, and 
drive him from the world. He has divine com- 
mission to shiver every manacle, and throw 
down prison walls ; to raise up the poor down- 
trodden, and to make every one as free as him- 
self. And he enters on his mission with a 
hearty good will ; for it is the enterprise most 
suited to his taste ; the very one he chooses for 
himself. 

Liberty has never been enslaved. He could 
not live in chains ; and he would suffocate 
within the prison walls. No manacles can fet- 
ter him; that moment they come in contact 
with his limbs, that moment they will fall asun- 
der like brittle ropes of sand. The strongest 
chains wrapped round his form are alike flaxen 
threads wrapped round a burning brand. Pow- 
er is powerless, and skill is foolishness, when ex- 
erted to restrain him ; he will be free ; as free 
as waters on the mountain side ; as free as bil- 
lows in the ocean's tide ; free as the air within 
the rushing breeze ; free as the birds among 
the forest trees. 

As Peter in the inner prison,* bound to liv- 

*Acts, chap, xii. 



HIS GREAT EXPLOITS. 31 

ing men, the gates all strongly fastened, the 
quaternions on guard ; and all, on peril of their 
precious lives, to keep the prisoner safely and 
bring him forth; — as Peter leaves his chains, 
goes through the bolted gates, eludes the watch- 
ful guards, and walks away ; — and all by heav- 
enly aid ; — so Liberty has an attending guard ; — 
an angel following or leading everywhere, who 
passes through the adamant, and forces brazen 
gates, nor leaves his charge one moment night 
nor day. 

With some it is a question whether Liberty 
can ever be destroyed. His enemies from the 
remote beginning have all combined to pierce 
his heart and slaughter him outright. Know- 
ledge, and Power, and Malice, under Tyranny, 
have formed a league to take his life ; and they 
long have labored with malicious pains to ac- 
complish it. His living is a standing miracle, 
unexplained to all who wish him ill ; inexplicate 
to those who do not comprehend the nature of 
his life ; incredible to those who do not know 
from personal experience or sight, but have to 
gain their knowledge upon trust. 

That Liberty is not invulnerable, is clearly 
proved from all the authentic records of the 



32 LIBERTY AND 

past. The present aspect of the wretched 
world; the imprisoned victims of strong Tyran- 
ny ; the sound of rattling chains ; the martyrs 1 
blood that nourishes the earth ; the thrilling 
legends of the clays of yore, when feudal for- 
tresses as sentinels stood on every hill, and kept 
their sleepless guardship over towns and prov- 
inces, teeming with sighing slaves. 

Liberty has sometimes received the most ter- 
rible wounds from lances, swords, and guns, and 
all the other enginery and instruments of death 
in use in carnal war ; yet he survives them all. 
But the most dreadful wounds he ever has re- 
ceived have been inflicted quite invisibly, from 
tongues that hacked and hewed like heavy 
claymores in remorseless hands ; from pens that 
pierced and poisoned all the wounds, like an- 
cient lances dipped in poison deep, and thrust 
by giant arms. And yet he lives : he lives as 
vigorously as when Philistia's stalwart champi- 
on challenged the Hebrew host, and fell down 
conquered by a shepherd boy. 

Immortal Liberty can never be destroyed, so 
long as he preserves his heart unwounded by 
his deadly foes. His limbs have frequently 
been severed from his body, and even his head 



HIS GREAT EXPLOITS. 33 

has sometimes been cloven through; and yet 
he lives. Though dwelling in the flesh, and 
subject to the influences that prevail over all 
in mortal form, he seems immortal in himself, 
as if his spirit were not merely so, but even had 
the power to keep his frame from all the fatal 
shafts ; or, being pierced, or hewed in pieces 
limb from limb, possessed the almightiness to 
raise himself from pulseless death. 

As ancient fable teaches of the gods, whose 
strange exploits were told in classic times, who 
might be wounded fatally, and yet survive, 
(strange paradox,) because by constitution and 
descent divine : As like the spirit champions in 
the wars of which the English Homer* sung, 
when he described the ghastly wounds a spirit 
may receive, and yet refuse to die : 



"The sword 
Of Michael, from the armory of God 
Was given him tempered so, that neither keen 
JSTor solid might resist that edge ; it met 
The sword of Satan, with steep force to smite 
Descending, and in half cut sheer ; nor stayed, 
But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering shared 
All his right side. Then Satan first knew pain, 
And writhed him to and fro convolved ; so sore 
The griding sword, with discontinuous wound, 

* Milton — Paradise Lost, Book vL 



34 LIBERTY AND 

Passed through him ; but the ethereal substance closed, 

Not long divisible." * * * * 

"Yet soon he healed : for spirits live throughout 

Vital in every part, not as frail man 

In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, 

Cannot but by annihilating die ; 

Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound 

Receive, no more than can the fluid air : 

All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, 

All intellect, all sense ; and, as they please, 

They limb themselves, and color, shape, or size, 

Assume, as likes them best, condensed or rare." 

So Liberty can never be destroyed but by 
annihilation ; can never be imprisoned but by 
Death. His real history is far more strange 
than classic fables of the martial gods ; and Fic- 
tion never has rehearsed a legend more incredi- 
ble than sober History tells, with undisputed 
truthfulness, of Liberty's exploits. The cham- 
pion lives, surviving ail his wounds ; he lives, 
and promises to live through endless years. 

But Liberty has wrought still greater deeds 
in saving millions from u the gall of bitterness, 
and the bond of iniquity." "Whom the Son 
maketh free, is free indeed." It is his princi- 
pal mission to go about in search of all the 
captives of the Evil One, and enable them " to 
recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil, 
who are led captive by him at his will." Truth, 
in his great work of enlightening sinners, who 



HIS GREAT EXPLOITS. 35 

"sit in the region and shadow of death," en- 
deavors " to open their eyes, and turn them 
from darkness to light ; " and Liberty comes in 
for his part of the work and the glory, and 
u turns them from the power of Satan unto 
God." 

Liberty, like Truth and Justice, has his law, 
and requires all his subjects to submit them- 
selves, if they would be really and permanently 
blest. Not only must they come to his gate, 
that opens into the way of freedom, and look 
therein, and understand his law ; but they must 
continue as they first begin, and thus insure his 
blessing upon all they do. Over his portals is 
inscribed the essence of the rules by which he 
offers freedom : 

u Whoso loolceth into the perfect laiv of Lib- 
erty, and continueth therein, he being not a for- 
getful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man 
shall be blessed in his deed"* 

No one can compute the blessings which Lib- 
erty has secured ; and no one can calculate the 
evils he has averted. But, however much he 
has accomplished, he is ambitious to do still 
more ; and he never rests in quietness, but with. 

* James i. 25. 



36 LIBERTY AND HIS EXPLOITS. 

the pleasing consciousness of having done his 
duty well, in winning peace and blessedness for 
those in bonds and wretchedness, and making 
their free happiness his kindly prowess tell. 

Truth's avocation and Liberty's are inti- 
mately connected. They frequently run to the 
aid of each other. In Truth's enterprise Liber- 
ty is a defender ; in Liberty's, Truth is a coun- 
selor. Both have been familiarly associated in 
all the great moral movements of ancient and 
modern times. 

These elder — and almost twin — brothers are 
wisely formed for each other's friendship and so- 
ciety. They work together with mutual advan- 
tage, each supplying some need in the other. 
Truth has a clearer vision, with a stronger in- 
tellect ; Liberty has a warmer heart and a 
stronger limb. One has the greater knowledge, 
and the power to know; the other has the 
greater courage, and the might to do. Truth 
is more habitually patient; Liberty is more 
usually ardent. Truth relies on perseverance ; 
Liberty relies on power. Truth proceeds in- 
visibly, and gives no note of his design ; Liber- 
ty moves openly, and through his works his 
wishes shine. 



AND THEIR APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 

ANALYSIS. 

Another Daughter — Name — Appearance — Disposition — A "Won- 
derful Magician — Astonishing Powers — Self-Resuscitation— Sus- 
tains Liberty — Almost Divine — Achievements — What she could do 
if she would — A Twin Sister — Name — Peculiar Qualities — A Pleas- 
ant Path — Pleasing Countenance — Inseparable Associates — Habit- 
ual Harmony — Dissimilarities and Resemblances — Unlike Spiritu- 
ally — Invocations to both — Faith in the Religious World — Indis- 
pensable Requisite — Surprising Performances— Influence on An- 
cient Saints — Hope and her Indispensableness — Vessel in a Tempest 
— A Sure Anchor and Anchorage — Hope's Doings. 



FAITH. 

"Faith lights us through the dark to Deity ; 

"Whilst, without sight, we witness that she shows 
More God than in his works our eyes can see ; 

Though none hut by those works the Godhead knows. 

Davenant. 

"Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, 
To break the shock blind ISTature cannot shun, 
And lands Thought smoothly on the further shore." 

Young. 



HOPE. 

u But thou, Hope ! with eyes so fair, 

"What was thy delighted measure? 

Still it whispered promised pleasure, 
And bade the lovely scene at distance hail. 

Still would her touch the strain prolong ; 
And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, 
She called on Echo still through all the song ; 

And where her sweetest theme she chose 

A soft responsive voice was heard at every close ; 
And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.' 

Collins. 



CHAPTER III. 

$atijj airtr fop, 

AND THEIR APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 

/^vNOTHER lovely daughter 

i^&h of the Divine Mother is Faith : even- 
tempered, clear-sighted, . enterprising Faith. 
Always cheerful, always hopeful, always obli- 
ging, always in motion, Faith is the sprightly 
companion of all, the ready assistant of all, and 
the selected favorite of all. 

Faith is a true Magician. Miracles and won- 
ders are her usual performances ; and she is ex- 
pected to excel the others in the astonishing va- 
riety and strangeness of her deeds. She has a 
vision that finds light in darkness ; a frame 
that gathers might from weakness ; a soul that 
is inspirited from despair. She firmly treads 
the ethereal pathway of unspoken promises. 
She everywhere finds an arm to sustain her. 



40 FAITH AND HOPE, AND 

She ventures to take hold of the terrible scep- 
ter of the Infinite. 

In her potency Faith approaches the Al- 
mighty, and seems to rival the Unlimited. She 
really quickens the dead. She cures the 
lame and the lunatic. She gives sight and 
hearing to the blind and deaf; speech and 
sprightliness to the dumb and the palsied. 
She goes with weeping Bereavement to the 
sepulchre where moulder the beloved dead, 
and calls them forth, living, beautiful, and un- 
changed. 

Downtrodden herself sometimes by the iron 
heel of Doubt and sad Discouragement, she 
springs up again, healed and healthful, revived 
by a single touch of her own magic wand ; for 
Faith works miracles upon herself as often as 
on others. She constantly renews her limbs, as 
they gradually decay. She restores her own 
sight and hearing; transforms a few barley 
loaves and fishes into abundance of food to feed 
herself and all the thousands that depend upon 
her. She changes even the clods of the earth 
into meat and bread, and brings oil and wine 
out of rocks and trees. What she does not do 
is less wonderful than what she does. She is as 



APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 41 

the right hand of the Almighty. And yet she 
dwells on earth in hnman flesh. 

And Faith is just as kindly as she is truly 
mighty ; and she offers her finite omnipotency 
to all. When Truth speaks faintly and begins 
to falter, she runs to his aid, and renews his 
inspiration. When Liberty's arm begins to 
weary, and his eye is growing dim, she girds 
him anew for the conflict, and revives his cour- 
age. She sharpens and furbishes his sword, and 
burnishes his shield and helmet. She sounds 
his clarion, and flings out his banner to the 
breeze. She charms the bird of victory to 
perch upon his standard. 

Faith has ever been the desire and admira- 
tion of the pious, and the wonder and astonish- 
ment of unbelievers. But her achievements 
are as undeniable as they are common and un- 
accountable. With feminine grace and deli- 
cacy, she has masculine strength and energy. 
She appears to unite earth and heaven in her 
own peculiar person. The efforts and instru- 
mentalities of the finite seem, with her, to be 
blended with the wisdom and mightiness of 
the Infinite. She almost seems Divinity in- 
carnate. 



42 FAITH AND HOPE, AND THEIR 

Faith has given pinions to the prophet, 
that he might soar bodily to the heavens, 
without coming into conflict with Death. * 
With an artillery of musical horns she has bat- 
tered down the walls of a strong city.f She 
has divided seas, and formed pavements in the 
bottom of the deep. J She has turned the dews 
of heaven into bread, and brought rivers out of 
the flinty rocks. She has changed a shepherd's 
rod into a scepter of power, to rule over armies 
and storms, and winds and waters. She has 
quenched the violence of flames, shut the 
mouths of lions, defied and escaped the edge 
of the sword, and turned to flight whole armies 
of foes. § 

These are only specimens of Faith's aston- 
ishing performances. Time and language both 
would fail to rehearse all the wonders of her 
doings; for she seems most easily to triumph 
over nature ; and she appears to move the 
heart of the Immutable. It is not possible to 
tell what she could do if she would. One who 
cannot be mistaken has affirmed, that with one 
of her least efforts she could tear up the forest 

*Heb. xi. 5. fHeb. xi. 30. 

JHeb. xi. 29. §Heb. 11. 



APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 43 

by its roots, and even snatch up the mountains 
and toss them into the sea ! * 

Faith is not alone : she has a twin sister as 
lovely and as excellent as herself. Her name 
is Hope. Hope's vision was never known to 
be obscured by grief. She has never learned 
the art of sighing, or the science of shedding 
tears. Hope weeping with sadness would be 
as great a wonder as a man with wings. She 
never knew the sadness of a pang ; nor felt the 
wretchedness of dark despair. She never 
knew a night without a star ; nor a storm with- 
out a rainbow. 

Hope's usual paths of pleasure, and all her 
walks of usefulness, are carpeted and bordered 
with perennial verdure. She sleeps in a bower 
of unfading blossoms. She breathes fragrance 
into all the gales. Her eyes are self-luminous 
with sweet expectation and fond desire. Her 
countenance glows with inward radiations of 
anticipated and present bliss. She is never 
ashamed, but looks with satisfaction, as well 
upon herself, as on all connected with her as 
her intimates or aids. 

Such is Hope: sweet, bright, happy Hope: 

Matt. xxi. 21. 



44 FAITH A1S T D HOPE, AND THEIR 

earth's heaven, and heaven's delight. She is 
always in company with Faith: wherever ei- 
ther is seen, the other is within call of the voice ; 
yes, within reaching distance of the hand. Uni- 
ted in birth, (though Faith seems the elder,) 
unseparate in life, should either die, the other 
would give up the ghost with the same ex- 
piring. 

It is pleasing to witness the delightful har- 
mony of these twin sisters, so very like in some 
things, so much unlike in others. They seem 
to comprehend each other perfectly, and to co- 
operate completely. Faith is ready for the 
present emergency ; Hope prepares for the fu- 
ture contingency. Faith, sustained by Hope, 
goes into the present conflict, prevails, and tri- 
umphs gloriously. Hope, sustained by Faith, 
has large anticipations of future victories, and 
plans successfully.* 

Thus Faith and Hope sweetly combine their 
labors ; each distinct from the other, yet both 
delightfully blended. Faith girds on the 
breast-plate ; Hope puts on the helmet. Faith 
grasps the shield, and unsheathes the sword ; 
Hope sounds the trumpet, and flings out the 

* Most of the Divine Sisterhood are heroines. 



APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 45 

banner. In edifying, Faith lays the founda- 
tion, and plans the structure ; Hope finishes the 
building, and adds the furniture. But Faith 
aids Hope in finishing ; and Hope aids Faith 
in founding. It is a real co-partnership, not to 
be dissolved by mutual consent, but to exist 
forever.* 

And Faith and Hope unite and blend, yet 
radically differ, in spiritual things. Interiorly 
and exteriorly they differ, and yet resemble, not 
only in respect of themselves, but in respect to 
their influence over others. Faith inspires the 
intellect ; Hope the sensibilities. Faith reaches 
the heart through the mind ; Hope affects the 
mind through the heart. Faith first reasons, 
and then rejoices; Hope first rejoices, and then 
reasons. One thinks before she speaks ; the 
other speaks before she thinks. One is more 
interested in the present and the past; the 
other is more interested in the future. One is 
more reflective ; the other is more suggestive. 
One is better to devise ; the other is better to 
improve. One leads, and the other follows, at 
the beginning ; the latter leads, and the former 
follows, at the ending. 

* Scripture represents all the Virtues as workers. 



46 FAITH AND HOPE, AND THEIR 

Blessed Sisters ! each worthy of the other ; 
each to the other necessary ! May ye both be 
familiar at our firesides ! May ye both be our 
attendants through all our walks of usefulness 
and suffering ! May ye both be ministering an- 
gels around our death-beds ! May ye both be- 
friend us at the final judgment ! May ye both 
be our intimates through endless ages ! 

In the Divine Government Faith is deemed 
an indispensable of holy character. As, with- 
out Charity, nothing can avail; so, without 
Faith, everything is worthless in the great sal- 
vation. One thought of Faith, one single 
word from her lips, will sometimes do more 
than the arduous labor of a life-time. Faith 
blots out all the records of iniquity, so that they 
will never appear against the transgressor to 
condemn him.* She restores the guilty exile 
to the bosom of the heavenly family, so that, 
from being children of wrath, they become the 
offspring of God.f Faith changes the whole 
character of men, in their relations to the law, 
and transforms the culprit into an approved 
subject. J 

* Acts, x. 43. f John, i. 12 ; Eph. ii. 8. J Rom - x - 4 J Gal. ii. 16. 



APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE. 47 

So indispensable is Faith esteemed by God 
himself, that he will never regard with pleas- 
ure any who are not reckoned as her intimate 
friends.* Even the greatest and best of saints 
have been esteemed more on account of their 
regard for Faith, than for all other things to- 
gether, f And Faith becomes the animating 
soul in the dead bodies of those who have been 
crucified with Christ, so that they live and la- 
bor, not by their own natural life and vigor, 
but by the vitality of Faith. J 

And Hope is just as influential in her place, 
and just as necessary. " We are saved by 
Hope," has been affirmed in the holy scripture. § 
When the soul is driven about and tossed by 
furious temptations, as a vessel on the stormy 
seas ; and there is no power to make the har- 
bor, and be sheltered from the storm ; then 
Hope, as a strong anchor, [ sure and steadfast, 
and reaching to the firm anchorage within the 
quiet vale, preserves the soul in steadiness, and 
she outrides the gale. 

Hope, by the assistance of Faith, has been 
the origin of many nations, and of multitudes 

*Heb. xi. 6; John iii. 36. f Rom. iv. 3. \ Gal. ii. 20. 

§Rora. viii. 24. || Heb. vi. 19. 



48 FAITH AND HOPE. 

more numerous than the stars of heaven.* She 
has purified many myriads of polluted spirits, and 
fitted them for the society of the blessed. + She 
has been the animating genius in all the glorious 
enterprises of the church of God. Faith could 
never have succeeded, but for the inspiring dis- 
position of Hope. He that is without Hope, is 
as a man without eyes, in a world of brightness 
and beauty. He that hath the society of Hope, 
hath heaven already begun in his heart. 

* Rom. iv. 18. f 1 John iii. 3. 



IN THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 

ANALYSIS. 

The Eldest Daughter — Personal Appearance — Disposition — Needs 
and has an Associate — Youngest Sister — Name — Resemblance and 
Contrast — Respective Missions — Influence of the Sisters over Lib- 
erty — Liberty in the Wars — Liberty at Home — Influence over 
Truth — Mutual Benefit of Association — Insensible Influences — A 
Curious Miracle — Moral Heat Diffusive — Blessings Returned — The 
Oak and the Vine — Charity's intrinsic Excellency — Indispensable 
Necessity — Mercy in her own place — Better than Sacrifice-^Divine 
Regard for her — Love of Mercy Rewarded — Her Surprising Famil- 
iarity with God — Her Astonishing Influence with Him — Jonah's 
Trouble with Her — Conjectures about what she has Effected — How 
Esteemed in Heaven — Songs and Choruses — Mercy Welcomed to 
the Earth — Invited to Important Places. 



CHARITY. 

" Pure in her aim, and in her temper mild, 
Her wisdom seems the weakness of a child; 
She makes excuses where she might condemn, 
Revil'd by those that hate her, prays for them; 
Suspicion lurks not in her artless breast, 
The worst suggested, she believes the best ; 
Not soon provoked, however stung and teased, 
And, if perhaps made angry, soon appeased ; 
She rather waves, than will dispute her right, 
And, injured, makes forgiveness her delight." 

Coivper. 

MERCY. 

"Though Justice be thy plea, consider this, — 
That, in the course of Justice, none of us 
Should see salvation : we do pray for Mercy ; 
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render 
The deeds of Mercy." 

Shakspeare. 

" In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, 
But all mankind's concern is Charity." 

Pope. 



CHAPTER IT. 

C(jarif]j attft Stag 

IN THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 

MELIGION'S eldest daughter, 
Charity, next appears, with her seraphic 
countenance and beaming eyes. Her smile is 
the light of paradise ; her tones the melody of 
joy. All her attitudes and movements are 
graceful with kindly affections. Every ringlet 
of her tresses quivers with strong pulsations of 
kindness. Wherever she steps the flowers 
spring up ; wherever she breathes they bud 
and blossom. Eden nourishes wherever she 
makes her dwelling. 

But in a world of suffering and sin; in a 
world of mangled forms and bleeding hearts, 
Charity is never so lovely alone. She derives 
much of her excellence of character and love- 
liness of form from the habitual companionship 
r*f another sister still younger than herself. 



52 CHARITY AND MERCY IN 

And the younger is equally improved by the 
elder's presence and advice. Formed for mu- 
tual advantage, and for intimate society, being 
scarcely ever absent from each other, to intro- 
duce them both may be done with great pro- 
priety, that both the sisters may be seen to- 
gether. 

MERCY. 

Charity's youngest sister is known on earth 
by the name of Mercy. She is not only the 
usual attendant of Charity, but her especial 
favorite ; and were they left entirely to each 
other's natural preference and will, they would 
be as inseparable as the substance and its 
shadow, or the solar light and heat. But a 
thousand inconveniences interrupt their inti- 
macy, and they separate for a little from una- 
voidable necessity; but they seek each other 
always as the needle seeks the pole. 

Though the two sisters in some respects 
greatly resemble each other, yet ordinarily it 
is not difficult to distinguish them. Charity 
is evidently older than Mercy, but not the less 
lovely and blooming. Charity hath more of 
grace and dignity ; Mercy hath more of ten- 
derness and simplicity. Charity is more dis- 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 53 

creet; Mercy, more sympathetic. Charity, 
with a heart less warm, moves more from prin- 
ciple ; Mercy, with less regard to principle, 
moves more from feeling. Charity hath al- 
ways bright, smiling eyes ; Mercy's are fre- 
quently dimmed with tears. 

Charity seems the beauty of the earth in a 
form that is more heavenly ; Mercy seems the 
beauty of heaven in a form that is more earthly. 
Charity is more lovely ; Mercy, more loviug. 
Charity, in her labors, is more general and in- 
direct; Mercy is more direct and specific. 
Charity more naturally looks upward ; Mercy 
more appropriately looks downward. Charity 
would bring heaven down to earth; Mercy 
would carry earth up to heaven. 

These two affectionate sisters have important 
parts to perform in the great religious renova- 
tion. Liberty would himself become a despot- 
if it were not for the soothing disposition and 
the sweeter influences of these his milder and 
more amiable sisters. They often link their 
arms through his to hold him back from battle, 
till they smile away the clouds and the terror 
from his brow, and calm the boisterous turbu- 
lence of his ocean-like emotions. 



54 CHARITY AND MERCY IN 

Away from their society, and forgetful of 
their tendencies, his falchion hath a keener 
edge, his arm a mightier power. Then all the 
lion in his nature is excited, and he leaps with 
mightier springs to grapple with his enemy. 
Then the feeble are assailed with annihilating 
power ; and the mighty ones are overcome and 
vanquished in an hour. 

But when the chivalrous brother retires from 
the raging conflict, and, ungirding his furious 
blade, and lifting the dripping helmet from his 
brow, takes his place beside his winning sisters, 
to hear their mild suggestions and reproofs, and 
feel their gentle influence subduing him, then 
he wishes he had fought with less severity, and 
had not pressed the vanquished with quite so 
much of cruelty. A tear perchance upon his 
eyelash glitters, when he thinks he may per- 
haps have caused unnecessary anguish, even in 
the fierce contention when he battled to de- 
liver the oppressed. 

In the furious rivalry, when all his inborn 
chivalry became so thoroughly excited, that all 
things were forgotten but the foe that stood be- 
fore him, he could but think that Charity, and 
tender-hearted Mercy, had quite too much of 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSONS. 55 

sympathy to do their labor well. It seemed to 
him then that he could love them better, had 
they more of the lion, and less of the lamb. He 
was not in a proper mood to appreciate their 
milder virtues ; and valued others only as they 
acted like himself. 

But now, in the presence of his sisters, Liberty 
forgets to be the champion, and resigns him- 
self to rest. And admiring their winning loveli- 
ness, and commending their natural tenderness, 
he determines from that moment to be less like 
himself, and more to resemble them. Now, if 
he must make war, Charity shall have a voice 
in the council that makes the declaration. If 
he must fight, Mercy shall administer to the 
wounded, and decently bury the dead. 

And even Truth sometimes detects himself 
proclaiming with severity, and doing fatal in- 
jury to the noble enterprise he wishes to pro- 
mote. For Truth has learned the value of the 
proverb, " A soft answer turneth away wrath." 
And he knows uncharity of feeling, and sever- 
ity of speech, strengthen the opposition which 
he tries to overcome. He, too, catching the mild 
inspiration of his amiable sisters, renews his 



56 CHARITY AND MERCY IN 

commendable exertions with more of gentle- 
ness, and with more success. 

Charity and Mercy are as advantageous to 
Truth and Liberty, as either of the two can be 
to the other. Truth and Liberty, Charity and 
Mercy always look and labor to the best advan- 
tage, when associated familiarly together. Each 
one improves upon the other. The stronger 
and the less refined receives a gentle polishing, 
that detracts nothing from his native vigor, 
but adds attractive loveliness, and gives, with 
greater gentleness, the promise of success. A 
sword of good material loses nothing by being 
polished well, but some things it may gain by 
all the faithful furbishing it is easy to obtain. 

And so, likewise, the weaker may receive in- 
crease of vigor by the presence of the stronger ; 
for the influence of the person is not wholly oc- 
casioned by the speech and action which he 
may exhibit : he may affect, insensibly and un- 
intentionally, by the bare presence of his per- 
son ; by the mere mention or memory of his 
deeds or sufferings ; by his habitual tones and 
cadences ; by the shape or color, the brilliancy 
or habit of the eyes ; by the general expres- 
sion of the features ; and by the pleasing or 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 57 

unpleasing, the soothing or exciting invisible 
aroma that emanates from every person's spirit, 
like fragrance from a flower, and constitutes his 
moral identity in the social world. 

Those members of the Divine Family who 
depend less, in influencing others, upon their 
native strength and vigor, than upon their love- 
liness of person and attractive disposition, lose 
nothing by familiar association with those who 
may insensibly impart of their personal endow- 
ment of energy and strength. The moral in- 
fluence that every one exerts, sometimes im- 
parts itself as virtue sometimes flowed from 
Christ, unwilled, to those who came in contact 
with his person.* 

And even when persons of the same moral 
characteristics are brought into familiar associ- 
ation, they may find that the virtues of some 
are altogether more energetic and influential 
than the same qualities in others : as it may be 
said, they exist in a higher temperature ; and 
their superabundance of heat, which is no ad- 
vantage to them, may be insensibly imparted 
to those of lower range of spirit and tempera- 
ture ; and, by equalizing the extremes of heat, 

* Luke viii. 43. 



58 CHARITY AND MERCY IN 

all may derive advantage, as the general re- 
sult, without compelling any one to suffer real 
loss. 

Nothing is lost by Charity from being asso- 
ciated with even-minded, intellectual Truth. 
Nothing is lost to Liberty from being very fre- 
quently in company with Charity, and hearing 
her discourse. And sometimes, unsuspected, 
he may be much affected, from the spiritual 
aroma that Mercy may impart ; which, quite 
insensibly, and yet sometimes effectually, and 
always very pleasantly, may calm his troubled 
heart. And how much of strength and vigor, 
and consequent efficiency, these amiable, but 
not remarkably powerful, sisters may derive 
from familiar intercourse with their strong- 
minded, able-bodied brothers, it is not easy 
to determine. But as the strong forest oak 
bears up the tender ivy whose tendrils cling 
about it ; and as the blooming vine lends its 
beauty and its grace to embellish the strong 
tree that bears it ; so moral strength, with rug- 
gedness, and weakness, joined with loveliness, 
can nourish best together. The one is the 
graceful, blooming vine, that clings to the trel- 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 59 

lising arms ; the other, the oak she seeks to en- 
twine, to embellish his strength with charms. 

But Charity has intrinsic, independent ex- 
cellencies which no strength of language can 
fully express. She has an immutable moral 
identity by which she is unmistakably distin- 
guished from every other, and by which, in this 
respect, she is superior to any other. Some 
excel her in other things ; but, in qualities pe- 
culiarly her own, she is as much superior to all 
the others, as noon-day brightness is superior 
to .the early dawn. Of her distinguishing qual- 
ities we have a full and divinely inspired de- 
scription, given by one whose knowledge was 
not merely human, and whose language was not 
merely the result of literary taste : he spake as 
he was moved by the Holy Ghost. 

These are his comprehensive words : * " Char- 
ity suffereth long, and is kind. Charity envi- 
eth not. Charity vaunteth not herself; is not 
puffed up ; doth not behave herself unseemly ; 
seeketh not her own ; is not easily provoked ; 
thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, 
but rejoiceth in the truth ; beareth all things ; 
believeth all things ; hopeth all things ; endu- 

* 1 Cor. xiii. 4-8. 



60 CHARITY AND MERGY IN 

reth all things. Charity never faileth. But 
whether there be prophecies, they shall fail ; 
whether there be tongues, they shall cease ; 
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish 
away. " 

The Divine Family could do nothing as it 
ought to be done, without Charity. She is not 
only as the golden chain to bind them all to- 
gether, but as the pleasant sunlight that gilds 
whatever it shines upon, and adds immeasurably 
to its brilliance and its beauty. Her influence 
is as the vernal breath upon the opening flow- 
ers, that gives them living vigor, and matures 
their fragrant beauty. 

The inspired estimation of the relative ex- 
cellence of Charity, in respect to things that 
might be substituted in place of her own dis- 
tinctive qualities, are thus expressed by one 
whose judgment was unerring:* u Though I 
speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, 
and have not Charity, I am become as sound- 
ing brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though 
I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all 
mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I 
have all faith, so that I could remove nioun- 

* 1 Cor. xiii, 1-3. 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 61 

tains, and have not Charity, I ami nothing. 
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 
poor; and though I give my body to be 
burned, and have not Charity, it -profiteth me 
nothing." 

And Mercy, in the place of Mercy, is just as 
excellent and indispensable as Charity, in the 
place of Charity, or Truth, in the place of 
Truth. All the expensive sacrifices of the an- 
cient temple service were of less account with 
God than Mercy: " I desired Mercy, and not 
sacrifice," was the divine expression. * To 
u love Mercy" is an excellence of value in the 
estimation of the Lord. He classes the love 
of Mercy with "doing justice," and "walking 
humbly with God." f " Blessed are the merci- 
ful ; for they shall obtain Mercy," is one of the 
choice beatitudes that the Lord Jesus has given 
in praise of Mercy. J " He shall have judg- 
ment without Mercy that hath showed no 
Mercy, "§ is one of the great principles that 
will decide men's future destiny. 

To be like Mercy is to be like the Lord ; for 
the Lord is "full of Mercy;" and he looks 
upon Mercy with the greatest admiration and 

* Hos. vi. 6. f Micah vi. 8. % Matt - Y - ^ § J ara es ii. 13. 



62 CHARITY AND MERCY IN 

love. He delights to be reminded of his re- 
gard for Mercy ; and promises the richest re- 
wards to those who appeal to him in her be- 
half. And the Lord Jesus, in his priestly of- 
fice, is eulogized in the highest manner, by be- 
ing represented as a "merciful High Priest" 
in our behalf. Some have even said that Mer- 
cy is God's darling associate, whom he has se- 
lected from all the rest of the Divine Family. 

It is absolutely certain that Mercy usually 
reposes in the Divine embrace, and pillows her 
head upon his bosom ! She is permitted to 
take liberties with him that would be deemed 
incredible, if it were not revealed in the scrip- 
tures. She sometimes works an entire revolu- 
tion in his purposes, * and secures blessings for 
those who are threatened only with evil. This 
is what the prophet Jonah apprehended, when 
he was so reluctant to go and warn the Nine- 
vites of God's purpose to destroy them. He 
was all the time impressed that Mercy, with 
her usual influence with God, would interpose 
in behalf of the poor Ninevites, and prevent 
the fulfillment of his predictions. And when, 
after faithfully warning them, he perceived that 

* Dent, xxxii. 26, 86, 43. 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 63 

Mercy had changed the Divine purpose, and 
that he should appear to the people as a false 
prophet, he was exceedingly grieved, and thus 
made his complaint to the Lord : * " Lord, 
was not this my saying, when I was yet in my 
country? Therefore I fled before unto Tar- 
shish ; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, 
and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kind- 
ness, and repentest thee of the evil." 

Indeed, such is the influence of Mercy in 
the Divine government, that it is probable that 
she has made more successful suggestions, and 
introduced more radical changes in the Divine 
administration, than any other member of the 
Divine Family. And it is likely that she has 
induced the Most Merciful to go to more ex- 
pense in doing good to the human race, and to 
make a greater sacrifice in their behalf, f than 
any other of the Divine Family could have 
done. And it is probable, too, that in the 
heavenly orchestre there will be more songs of 
praise, in view of what Mercy has done, J than 
in view of the doings of any other member of 
the court in heaven. Wisdom and Power, 
and Justice and Truth will all be remembered 

♦Jonah, iii. 10, iv. 1. f John, iii. 16. % Rev. vii. 9-14. 



64 CHARITY A2JD MERCY IN 

in the songs above ; but Mercy will be the 
thrilling theme of all the choruses. 

If Mercy, then, be so highly prized in 
heaven ; if God delights in her, and glories in 
the association ; if he reckons it among his no- 
ble deeds that Mercy slumbers in his bosom ; 
and if the souls of the redeemed, and all the 
angels who have aided them, combine to sing 
in praise of Mercy, and even bow before her 
in grateful adoration ; how, then, should Mercy 
be esteemed on earth, where she toils for 
wretched sinners, and weeps and sighs with 
tender sympathy for all who need her labors ? 

Let Mercy live ! live as a queen enthroned 
in all our hearts! Strew her pathway with 
flowers ; regale her with the incense of fragrant 
kindnesses ; and let her progress through our 
fallen world be a march of glorious triumph ! 
Let messengers of Mercy go forth as heralds, 
proclaiming through the land, "Prepare ye the 
way ! Cast up, cast up a highway ! Gather 
out the stumbling blocks ! Lift up a standard 
for the people ! " 

Let Mercy live ! live as a welcome guest in 
all our dwellings! Welcomed as the ruling 
spirit, and as the bright adornment of every 



THEIR RESPECTIVE MISSIONS. 65 

circle ! Let her preside in the courts of em- 
pires and kings ; and sit in all the legislative 
halls ! Let her stand in the markets ; visit the 
marts of commerce and exchange ; regulate 
our busy manufactories ; plead in our judicial 
courts; preach in our pulpits; — let her be eve- 
rywhere, and earth shall be like heaven ! 



ANALYSIS. 

Personal Appearance — Contrast with Liberty — Disposition — Pe- 
culiar Vision — Connection with Truth — the Difference — Personal 
Bearing — Good Qualities — Official Deportment — Unofficial — A 
Real Peace-Maker — Methods and Results — Unfavorable Position — 
Mercy's Opposition — Her Opinion — Her Popularity — Prejudice 
against Justice — A Penitent in Court — Mercy's Interference — The 
Prisoner Rescued — Mortification of Justice — Coolness between him 
and Mercy — A Private Meeting — Almost a Quarrel — Hard 
Speeches suddenly Interrupted — Conduct of Charity — Her Kind 
Appeal — The Reconciliation — The Token of Forgiveness. 



JUSTICE. 

" In the corrupted currents of this world 
Offense's gilded hand may shove by Justice : 
And oft 'tis seen, the wicked prize itself 
Buys out the law ; but 'tis not so above; 
There is no shuffling; there the action lies 
In its true nature ; and we ourselves compelled, 
E'en to the teeth and forehead of our faults, 
To give in evidence." 

Shakespeare. 

"All are not just because they do no wrong ; 
But he who will not wrong me when he may, 
He is the truly just." 

Cumberland. 

"A happy lot be thine, and larger light 
Await thee there; for thou hast bound thy will 
In cheerful homage to the rule of sight, 
And lovest all, and doest good for ill." 

Bryant. 

"I put on righteousness, and it clothed me ; 
My judgment was as a robe and a diadem." 

Job xxix. 14. 



CHAPTER Y. 

fusttu ant) jjis f otattaiu 

§F all tlie offspring of the Di- 
vine Mother, there is not one more noble 
in his native beauty than upright, sober-faced 
Justice. In some respects he seems almost a 
twin of his brother Truth, and the very oppo- 
site of his sister Mercy. He is as tall and as dig- 
nified as Liberty, and equally athletic. And 
yet Justice is very unlike Liberty in disposition 
and office. 

Liberty has always a keen eye for his own 
interests ; he never loses sight of himself. His 
plea is, that he is bound to love his neighbor 
as himself; and, as he wishes to love his neigh- 
bor very much, he concludes that he ought to 
love himself a good deal, and thus promote the 
extension and the degree of neighborly affec- 
tion. And he thinks himself justified in his 
most earnest endeavors to do well for himself; 
and he is willing to do as much for others. 



70 JUSTICE AND 

But Justice is proverbially blind, where his 
own interests are concerned. His vision is won- 
derfully singular. In searching out for the 
rights of others ; in keen discrimination between 
equitable realities and mere appearances ; in all 
things pertaining to righteousness, either in 
words or dealings, Truth himself has not a 
clearer vision, or a judgment more unerring. 

Yet in respect of things pertaining merely to 
himself, Justice seems very near-sighted, and 
some would suppose he was really blind. It is 
thought by some, however, that this peculiarity 
of vision must be attributed to the peculiar 
form of his eye, which appears to be fashioned 
for seeing afar off, and not for things nigh at 
hand. It is not near-sightedness, then, but far- 
sightedness that troubles him most. Things 
pertaining closely to himself are not discovered 
so distinctly as those pertaining to others, and 
those which are afar off. He is like the eagle 
that cannot see the tip of his own bill, but from 
his loftiest eyrie on the mountain crag can see 
the little sparrow that hops and chirps among 
the grass in the deep valley below. 

Justice and Truth have close affinities, as 
close perhaps as exist between any two mem- 



HIS VOCATION. 71 

bers of the Divine Family. They always de- 
light to associate together. They usually travel 
and labor, and suffer and rest by the side of 
each other. And neither of them ever under- 
takes a difficult enterprise without conferring 
with the other. Their mutual motto is, " Uni- 
ted we stand; divided we fall." 

Yet Truth is usually first ; first in being and 
first in progress, first in perception and rest. 
And Justice is always ready to give due credit 
to Truth for his keen perception and extensive 
knowledge, and usually avails himself of his 
brother's superior perception and wisdom. 
Truth has had a wider field of observation, and 
his store of information is more extensive than 
that of Justice. But Justice, in his own most 
appropriate department, is superior to Truth, 
and often gives him advice of the most indis- 
pensable kind. 

Truth is the best observer ; Justice, the best 
adviser. Truth gathers the unfashioned ma- 
terials ; Justice prepares and erects the build- 
ing, with line and plummet, and gives it the 
finest proportions. Truth is Justice in princi- 
ple ; Justice is Truth in application. The one 
is more theoretical ; the other is more practical. 



72 JUSTICE AND 

Truth deals more with certainty. Justice more 
with equity. Truth guides Justice to the be- 
ginning ; Justice leads Truth at the finishing. 

Justice is not esteemed as the most amiable 
of the family. He has always been regarded as 
rather unsocial, and as too stern and stubborn. 
His countenance is rather forbidding to look 
upon ; but not on account of any fault of feature 
or complexion. His features are chiseled after 
the most classical model, and his complexion is 
transparent with unblemished purity. But he 
is so habitually serious, and so apparently severe, 
and there is such an expression of sternness in 
his eyes, that very few approach him without a 
little fear. And some exceedingly dread to 
look him full in the face. 

Yet there is not one of the family who is more 
highly esteemed for inflexible uprightness of 
purpose, and irreproachable life, than this same 
beloved yet dreaded Justice. He seldom smiles 
or weeps, but frequently frowns ; and when he 
does frown, it means all that it seems ; for Jus- 
tice has never been guilty of trifling. He 
would as soon be accused of falsehood or pas- 
sion, as to be deemed a. trifler with serious 
things. 



HIS VOCATION. 73 

But, after all, Justice is more kindly in his 
heart than he seems in his manners. His sym- 
pathetic sighing is outwardly suppressed, but 
inwardly compressed ; and all his tears are shed 
inside. It is rather his official station, than his 
natural disposition, that makes him habitually 
stern, and apparently severe. It is in his offi- 
cial robes and station as a judge that he seems 
least amiable and kindly ; and it is thus that he 
wins most of reverence and respect, and least 
of love. 

But Justice, disburthened of his cares, and 
out of his robes, is one of the kindliest hearted 
and least repulsive of all the family. Never en- 
tirely forgetting his official position, nor losing 
the spirit that adorns his robes, he habitually 
maintains a discreet reserve, speaks with pre- 
cision and deliberate care, and even when he re- 
laxes into a sober smile, it is like a stray sun- 
beam flitting over a statue of marble. 

Yet Justice endeavors to conform himself to 

the proprieties of all the societies in which he 

mingles. A sage among sages, a divine with 

divines, and with children a child. For he has 

been known to unbend himself for pastime in a 

romp with children, and play judge or jury with 
D 



74 JUSTICE AlfD 

the little ones in sport. But even then he seems 
naturally judicial in his subdued recreations, as 
if the spirit and memory of his official work bet- 
ter qualified him for association with men than 
children. But he will sit on the floor in the 
midst of an infantile group, and settle their lit- 
tle disputes about their food or toys with as 
much carefulness of words and propriety of 
means, as when presiding in state over the tough 
litigations and boisterous contentions of men. 

Justice is quite unobtrusive and peaceful m 
his ways. He never excites disputes or litiga- 
tions himself, although it might seem to his pri- 
vate advantage to promote them, since it is a 
part of his official and remunerative labor to 
preside on such occasions. There is nothing 
more pleasing to hira than to persuade the liti- 
gious to adjust their disputes without proceed- 
ing to extremes. Many are the times that he 
has visited contending parties at midnight, when 
all the rest were asleep, and reasoned with them, 
and pleaded with them, to induce them of theii 
own consent to do right, and avoid the excite 
ment and evil of perseverance in wrong. 

If Truth were permitted to reveal what he 
knows, it would be very plain to all that, as 



HIS VOCATION. 75 

much as this world is given to unrighteous quar- 
rels and troublesome litigations, and as much as 
Justice has to do in his official robes, yet he 
does much more in private, without commenda- 
tion and without reward. 

He has often been known to visit deceitful 
pretenders, and oppressive dealers, and remon- 
strate with them, and threaten them, so that 
they could not get one minute's rest during the 
whole night. Indeed, Justice has always been 
a terror to evil doers ; and he has so much to 
do v> r ith persons of this character, that he has 
unconsciously contracted a habitual severity of 
aspect, and an unsocialness of disposition, that 
have become his personal characteristics. But 
when there is no sin to rebuke, no sinners to 
admonish and judge, he wears a perpetual 
smile, and blends with his native dignity of 
carriage such a genial warmth, and such an ex- 
pression of approving delight, that he is every- 
where welcomed as a most judicious and excel- 
lent friend. Then even Mercy herself beholds 
him with unfeigned admiration and love. 

But in this poor world of sinners and sin, 
Mercy has trouble enough to get along with 
her stern -eyed, inflexible brother. She is al- 



76 JUSTICE A1S T D 

most ready to quarrel with him every time he 
administers the lash, or pronounces sentence of 
death. She flings herself on her knees at his 
feet, and with the most moving entreaties be- 
seeches him to spare the guilty, and release the 
sufferer from his woes. She seems to make it 
her principal business to oppose her brother 
Justice in almost everything connected with 
his official business. She stands at his elbow 
when he writes down the laws by which he gov- 
erns his proceedings ; and the guilty may thank 
Mercy for innumerable mitigations of the rig- 
ors of the statutes and customs by which trans- 
gressors are tried and punished. 

Now, Justice loves his sister Mercy, for her 
tenderness of heart, and unfeigned compassion, 
and would always like to please her, if he could, 
with honor to himself and safety to the rest. 
But sometimes his duty requires inflexible firm- 
ness, and untearful severity ; and poor Mercy 
is often carried out of court in a swoon, faint- 
ing with despair and anguish. For Mercy will 
intrude into such places, and do what she can to 
mitigate what she cannot entirely prevent. She 
is so undeniably respectable and amiable that 
no one dares to treat her with disrespect or 



HIS VOCATION. 77 

neglect, and she is allowed to take many liber- 
ties which could not possibly be permitted to 
any other. 

And if Truth will forgive for betraying the 
secret, almost every one is disposed to keep on 
the right side of Mercy, because every one 
knows that there is at least a possibility that he 
may some time or other want Mercy to inter- 
pose in behalf of himself! Hence very few feel 
disposed to treat the tender-hearted sister with 
rudeness, though she may greatly trouble them 
with her suggestions and complaints. Every 
one believes in the purity of her motives, and 
all admit the general correctness of her proceed- 
ings, although she is not trammeled by any es- 
tablished usages, nor guided by definite rules. 
And Justice is almost always perplexed by her 
sometimes irregular, and usually impulsive pro- 
ceedings. 

And Justice gets a great many hard names 
for his unfaltering faithfulness in his official du- 
ties. Yet very few would like to impeach his 
rectitude, or call in question his official proce- 
dure. He feels the dignity and responsibility of 
his station, and earnestly endeavors to fill it with 
self-commendation and divine approbation. He 



78 JUSTICE AND 

knows that Truth keeps an impartial record of 
all the judicial proceedings ; and he is impressed 
that the time is coming when Justice shall ap- 
pear to have been as indispensable to the world's 
well-being as the tears of Mercy, or Liberty's 
helmet and sword. 

Curious incidents sometimes transpire where 
Justice and Mercy come into conflict. One day 
Justice put on his official robes to sit in judg- 
ment in the case of a very wicked, yet very 
youthful criminal, who was arraigned for a very 
heinous offense. Truth took the stand and gave 
testimony so clear and conclusive of the guilt 
of the culprit that every one instantly perceived 
the utter impossibility of disproving the charge. 
Indeed, the criminal himself made a full con- 
fession, and fully admitted that he deserved to 
die. He seemed to be really penitent, and 
wept with great bitterness of soul. Yet Jus- 
tice knew of no statute or established custom 
by which the guilty could be acquitted. And 
while he felt and mourned the necessity, yet he 
could not deny the propriety of letting the vio- 
lated law take its course with the guilty. 

Mercy heard of the case, and came rushing in- 
to the court, with her eyes red with weeping, and 



HIS VOCATION. 79 

her locks all disheveled, and began such an 
impassioned supplication in behalf of the poor, 
trembling culprit, that Justice's lips began to 
quiver, as he arose to pronounce the dreadful 
sentence, and the tears glistened on his eyelids 
as he looked in the prisoner's face. Mercy per- 
ceived that she was beginning to prevail, and 
this inspired her to redouble her efforts for the 
prisoner's release. And she watched the effects 
of her ardent supplications and appeals, until 
she saw that the eyes of all the court were 
blinded with tears ; then she seized the pris- 
oner in her arms and bore him away to a place 
of safety, in spite of all that were disposed to 
resist her. 

For a long time after that Justice looked a lit- 
tle ashamed, as if something had transpired with 
which he was much chagrined ; and it is said 
that he had some fears of being deposed from 
his office. He hardly looked at Mercy now 
without an angry frown ; and Mercy herself was 
afraid that she had carried matters too far. Jus- 
tice was evidently a good deal disturbed, and 
hardly knew what course to pursue. He seemed 
almost, if not quite angry with Mercy for tram- 
pling upon all the established customs of the 



80 JUSTICE AND 

court, and for proceeding so irregularly, and 
prevailing so triumphantly. He said tie " doubt- 
ed whereunto this thing would grow." He was 
afraid of the final result. He thought that the 
laws ought to be treated with some respect, and 
old established customs ought not to be tram- 
pled under foot, out of sympathy for a guilty per- 
son, even if he did appear to be really sorrow- 
ful and penitent. 

Justice and Mercy avoided each other for a 
long time after that. He was really mortified, 
and almost angry with her ; and yet he did not 
like to say too much by way of blame, for he 
was willing to concede that her motives were 
good, and her conduct very natural for such an 
impulsive, tender-hearted person. And Mercy 
herself was a little fearful to meet Justice again, 
for she could see the permanent frown upon his 
brow. 

One day they met each other alone, and Jus- 
tice began to chide Mercy for her impetuous 
indiscretion, and irregular proceeding ; and he 
told her that he should command the proper 
officers to bolt her out of court. He could not 
submit, he said, to have all law and custom set 
aside in such a way. Why, said he, if such 



HIS VOCATION. 81 

things are permitted, it will not be ten years 
before all the prisons will be empty, and crimi- 
nals will be swarming over the land, unre- 
strained and unpunished. As for you, Mercy, 
said he, you ought to know your place, and not 
conduct yourself so injudiciously. I declare, 
he continued, (waxing warmer every moment,) 
it makes my cheeks burn to think of it. It is 
shameful. What can I say in justification of 
myself hereafter ? How can I hold up my head 
as heretofore ? I am ashamed of myself. 

(Now Charity had overheard the loud con- 
versation; and, fearing the result, if Justice 
should get thoroughly aroused, she stole quietly 
into the room, and came up behind him, that 
she might check him, if he should go too far, as 
she was accustomed to do on such occasions. 
But Justice did not perceive that she was pres- 
ent, and was just ready to say some pretty se- 
vere things to Mercy.) Why, he continued, 
every body will judge me unworthy to wear my 
official robes, if I suffer the laws of the land and 
the established customs of the court to be set 
aside by such an impulsive, weak-minded, sil — 

(At this moment Charity, who stood just be- 
hind him, suddenly clapped her hand over his 
D* 6 



82 JUSTICE AND 

mouth, and prevented him from finishing what 
he was going to say. He was going to call 
Mercy a weak-minded, silly disturber of the 
peace.) Now, brother Justice, said Charity, I 
think you have said enough. It is quite appro- 
priate for you to be rather severe at times, on 
account of your official position. But is there 
any propriety in your being personal and an- 
gry ? Can you be justified in saying such hard 
things by way of reproach to our most amiable 
and compassionate sister ? Suppose that young 
culprit was your own son, Justice, do you think 
you would be quite so severe on Mercy for in- 
terfering in his behalf? Perhaps she does need 
a slight rebuke for proceeding so impulsively 
and so irregularly. She would have done bet- 
ter, perhaps, if she had spoken to the prisoner's 
counsel first, and proceeded more in accordance 
with judicial custom. 

But, continued Charity, you know, brother 
Justice, that you were just on the point of pro- 
nouncing the dreadful sentence, and Mercy per- 
ceived that there was not a moment to be lost. 
And, besides, you know that she has an exceed- 
ingly sympathetic heart, and cannot control her 
feelings as well as many others can, who feel 



HIS VOCATION. 83 

with less intensity. It is not because she is 
weak-minded, or silly, brother Justice ; but it 
is because she feels irrepressible sympathy for 
all who are in distress. As is her name, so is 
her disposition ; and this you know as well as 
herself. And now, my dear brother, I will give 
you the credit of very rarely showing such un- 
handsome treatment to your sister Mercy. You 
are not very often heard to use opprobious epi- 
thets, even when you are characteristically se- 
vere. And you will perceive yourself, Justice, 
that it is due to Mercy that you make some 
apology for your evidently indiscreet and un- 
amiable epithets. (Now Justice colored up 
with shame, and for a moment thought it would 
be beneath his dignity to apologize, and that 
he would never do it. But Charity, who now 
stood just before him, looked him right in the 
eye, and he made a full apology to Mercy, and 
promised to be more careful in future.) 

I am free to admit, said Charity, that Mercy 
did not proceed quite so regularly as I hope 
she may hereafter, in similar cases ; and yet I 
am glad that she did succeed ; I really think the 
case justified her interposition. And now, 
brother Justice, since what is done cannot be 



84 JUSTICE AND HIS VOCATION. 

undone, and since you yourself are willing to 
admit that Mercy acted from the natural prompt- 
ings of her own most affectionate nature, and 
did not intend to do anything improper, I hope 
you will now grant to Mercy a full .pardon for 
interfering with the proceedings of the court, 
and a warm kiss of brotherly love and recon- 
ciliation. So Justice took Mercy in his arms, 
and kissed her on both cheeks, and Mercy kissed 
one of his. 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 

ANALYSIS. 

Opposite Characters — Family Likeness — Respective Ages — Con- 
templation's Person — Disposition — Adaptation — Impulse's Charac- 
ter — Contrast — Admiration for Zeal — Industry and Patience — Con- 
templation at his Vocation — Address from the Hill-top — Song of the 
Waters — Evening Meditation — By the Sea — Ships and Monsters — 
Song of Praise — Midnight Worship — Admiration of Redemption — 
Charity and Impulse Overhear his Songs — Conversation about Con- 
templation — Charity's Apology — Impulse's Confession — Her Reso- 
lution — Her Mistake — Industry's Complaint — Zeal's Impatience — 
Contemplation's Peculiar Work — Impulse's Eloquence — How she 
Affects Truth and Justice — Her Surprising Energy — Her Methods 
of Influence — Compared with Other Members of the Family — How 
Impulse and Contemplation Work and Appear to Best Advantage. 



CONTEMPLATION. 

"Serenely gazing o'er the heaving deep, 
He reads the records of Divinity, 
That fill the vastness of the liquid scroll — 
Thus in his meditative morning walks. 

Upturned, his eye beholds the glowing stars, 
The gleaming comets in their venturous flight, 
The changing morn, and the bright galaxy, 
Aud marks the traces of Almighty Hands — 
Thus in his frequent, musing, midnight walks." 

Anonymous. 

IMPULSE. 

"With nimble foot she springs to the embrace, 
Where stands Affection with extended arms. 
With flashing eyes she sees the banner spread, 
Where "Valor beckons to the truly brave, 
And feels the hero's ardor in her soul. 

Where weeping Sorrow bows her weary head, 
And mournful sighings swell her troubled breast, 
She moves instinctively with sighs and tears, 
And feels another's sorrow as her own." 

Anonymous. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Contajrlatimt nil |mpk 

IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 

fK&Ll the Divide Family per- 
haps there are no two more unlike each 
other than Impulse and Contemplation. They 
seem to be almost exactly opposites. And yet, 
notwithstanding their dissimilarities, they ex- 
hibit enough of family likeness to show that 
they have both sprung from the same parent- 
age. Some have supposed that their resem- 
blance consists mainly in opposites. But this 
is too paradoxical to be admitted. If a person 
observe them for the purpose of detecting re- 
semblances, he will find no difficulty in discov- 
ering traits of similarity. And if he view them 
for the purpose of perceiving in what respect 
they differ, he will just as easily — and perhaps 
still more easily — discover traits of unlikeness 
both in disposition and feature. 



88 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

Which is the senior of the two — Contem- 
plation, or Impulse — is not so readily deter- 
mined. Persons of equal discernment may be 
found of opposite opinions. Truth, the eldest 
born of the family, has kept a family record ; 
but, for some reason, the record is rather am- 
biguous, and it is not easy to determine with 
certainty which of the two first beheld the 
light. And it is even supposed by some that 
the two are twins by birth, however dissimilar 
in their maturity. 

Contemplation has a large, manly form, with 
a serious, thoughtful countenance, with great 
dignity of carriage. He is usually arrayed, 
with great simplicity, and preserves almost un- 
ruffled calmness in the midst of the multiform 
tumults and excitements of the agitated world. 
He hates a storm ; but loves the calm summer 
morning, and the wintry, starry midnight. He 
cannot bear to be hurried. He thinks there is 
but little wisdom in haste. To be prudent is 
with him more desirable than to be nimble or 
strong. 

Contemplation has a frame that evinces con- 
siderable powers of activity and endurance. 
But he has never been considered remarkable 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 89 

for accomplishing much in ordinary labors. 
His adaptation and taste naturally lead him to 
meditate more, and to labor less than some 
of the others. His skill to devise is better than 
his power to accomplish. He could originate 
theories and furnish plans enough to keep all 
the world in motion ; but if the execution of 
the labor were left to himself, the world would 
stagnate for want of exercise. He studies 
head-work, and leaves it for others to do the 
hand-work. His brain is stronger than his arm, 
and his thoughts are swifter than his feet. He 
is always more ready to rest than to run. 

It is hot so with Impulse. She is as nearly 
the antipode of Contemplation as their situa- 
tion in the same family can admit. She has 
more readiness and power to, act than genius or 
taste to think. Her form is light and lithe, and, 
without wings, she can almost fly. Her coun- 
tenance is naturally very sprightly, and her eye 
sometimes almost blazes with brightness. And 
she does love a tumult of almost any kind ; for 
excitement seems to be her native element, 
where she derives most of happiness, and ac- 
quires most of power. She dreads nothing 
worse than she dreads a calm. Unless the 



90 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

winds are blowing pretty briskly, she almost 
suffocates for want of air. She would rather 
live in the vortex of a whirlwind, or be blown 
about like a leaf in a tempest, than be confined 
to the silent walls and the stagnant air that Con- 
templation selects from choice. 

Impulse has more activity of muscle than 
mind ; more fleetness of foot than vigor of 
thought. But, after all, she is more brisk than 
prudent; more supple than strong. She can 
not plan as well as she can execute. Give her 
something to do, show her where and when to 
begin, and, as long as her streugth endures, she 
will exhibit astonishing powers, and accom- 
plish an amount that must awaken surprise. 
But her great difficulty is that she goes beyond 
her strength, for her ambition is far greater 
than her ability ; and she gets out of breath 
before she accomplishes half that she under- 
takes to perform. 

Impulse thinks her brother Zeal altogether 
superior to Contemplation. She admires his 
natural ardency, his flashing eyes, his strong, 
active limbs, his energetic voice, and his uni- 
form readiness to engage in every good word 
and work. And she wonders that every one 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 91 

else does not agree with her in her admiration 
of Zeal, and disapprobation of what she some- 
times calls the sluggishness of Contemplation. 

But Impulse is not to be relied upon in a long 
and difficult labor. What she does must be 
done at once, before she gets out of patience 
and out of breath. She wonders inexpressibly 
how her slow moving brother Industry can 
hold out so long, and accomplish so much in 
the end, when he promises so little at the be- 
ginning. And it is quite inexplicable to her 
hoAV her uncomplaining sister Patience can en- 
dure so much, and submit so quietly to that 
which seems to her absolutely unendurable. 

But while Impulse may be worrying herself 
entirely out of breath, and fainting from over- 
tasking her frame, her sedate, meditative 
brother may be seen, perhaps, standing upon 
some retired hill-top, looking abroad over the 
varied landscape, contemplating the clouds, the 
fountains and brooks, the valleys and hills, the 
birds and the beasts, the flowers and the trees, 
until his slowly moving thoughts become too 
animated to be suppressed, and he breaks out 
with pious, subdued songs of admiration and 
praise : 



92 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

" Lord, my God, thou art very great. Thou 
art clothed with honor and majesty. Who 
coverest thyself with light as a garment ; who 
stretchest out the heavens like a curtain ; who 
layest the beams of thy chambers in the wa- 
ters ; who makest the clouds thy chariot ; who 
walkest upon the wings of the wind ; who ma- 
kest thine angels spirits; thy ministers a fla- 
ming fire. Thou hast founded the earth upon 
her bases that she should not be removed for- 
ever. Thou hast covered it with the deep as a 
garment: the waters stood above the moun- 
tains. At thy rebuke they fled ; at the voice 
of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up 
by the mountains ; they go down by the val- 
leys, unto the place which thou hast founded for 
them. Thou hast set a bound that they may 
not pass over ; that they turn not again to cover 
the earth. Thou sendest the springs into the 
valleys which run among the hills. They give 
drink to every beast of the field ; the wild ze- 
bras quench their thirst there. By them the 
fowls of heaven have their habitation, singing 
among the branches." 

Here Contemplation pauses a moment in his 
intellectual praise, and watches the uncertain 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 93 

movements of a rain cloud that rises from 
the distant sea. He perceives it enlarge its 
borders, and increase its density, until the little 
cloud, which was no larger at first than a hu- 
man hand, fills all the broad heavens, and pours 
down the fertilizing showers upon the thirsty 
land. Then he begins to meditate aloud and 
his thoughts pass from heaven to earth, and 
from earth to heaven, as he exclaims : 

"He watereth the hills from his chambers; 
the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, 
and herb for the sustenance of man, that he 
may bring forth food out of the earth; and 
wine that maketh glad the heart of man ; and 
oil that maketh his face to shine ; and bread 
which strengtheneth man's heart. The trees 
of the Lord are full of sap ; the cedars of Leb- 
anon which he hath planted ; where the birds 
make their nests ; and the stork which buildeth 
her house among the fir trees. The high hills 
are the refuge for the goats ; and the rocks for 
the conies." 

At such times Contemplation becomes so ab- 
sorbed with the interest of the scene, that he 
lingers until the sun goes down, and the night 



94 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

comes on with its changing moon, when the la- 
borer returns from his toil, and the wild beasts 
that shun the light, and have slumbered in their 
dens during the day, creep forth and go prowl- 
ing about for their prey. And Contemplation 
begins to talk aloud again : 

u He appointeth the moon for seasons; the 
sun knoweth his going down." And, mingling 
praise with meditation, he looks upward and 
exclaims, " Thou makest darkness and it is 
night ; wherein all the beasts of the forest do 
creep forth. The young lions do roar after 
their prey, and seek their meat from God. 
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves to- 
gether, and lay them down in their dens. Man 
goeth forth unto his work and to his labor un- 
til the evening. Lord, how manifold are 
thy works ! In wisdom hast thou made them 
all: the earth is full of thy glory." 

Contemplation sometimes walks out in the 
morning by the side of the sea, and seats himself 
upon the edge of the overhanging cliff, his feet 
sprinkled with the flying spray, and there, look- 
ing abroad over the billows, watching the 
gleaming sails as they approach, or recede, and 
the huge monsters that live in the deep, de- 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 95 

vouring myriads of the lesser creatures for their 
food, he murmurs to himself aloud, and min- 
gles with his pious meditations ascriptions of 
praise to the Lord : 

" There go the ships ; and there is that levia- 
than which thou hast formed to play in the wa- 
ters. These all wait upon thee, that thou may- 
est give them their meat in due season ; what 
thou givest them they gather; thou openest 
thy hand, and they are rilled with good." 

Seeing some huge monster floundering in his 
dying agony, as he lashes the billows into foam ; 
or beholding one dead and decomposing by the 
coast at his feet, he continues his meditative 
praise : " Thou hidest thy face ; they are 
troubled. Thou takest away their breath; 
they die, and return to their dust. Thou send- 
est forth thy Spirit ; they are created ; and 
thou renewest the face of the earth. The 
glory of the Lord endureth forever ; the Lord 
rejoiceth in all his works. I will praise my 
God while I have my being. My meditation 
of him shall be sweet : I will be glad in the 
Lord." 

Even at midnight, wandering abroad, and 
surveying the starry heavens, Contemplation 



96 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

may sometimes be overheard exclaiming with 
unusual emotion : " When I consider thy heav- 
ens, the work of thy fingers ; the moon and 
the stars which thou hast ordained ; what is 
man, that thou art mindful of him ? or the son 
of man, that thou visitest him ? " 

But Contemplation is peculiarly fond of med- 
itating on the great work of human redemption. 
Occupying a station where the whole scene of 
transgression, guilt, and suffering may be sur- 
veyed at once, and where, at the same view, 
the divine holiness, power, wisdom, and good- 
ness all pass before him in the overwhelming 
glory of their infinitude, he feels his soul within 
him warming and swelling with speechless ad- 
miration and surprise. He then comprehends 
the intention of the attitude of the cherubim 
that spread their wings over the mysterious 
ark, and stand with their faces looking inward 
and downward toward the mercy seat, as if 
looking into the hidden mystery, and trying to 
comprehend the unrevealed and the unreveal- 
able. 

At such times Contemplation thinks he can in 
part comprehend the mysterious silence of 
heaven that continued for half an hour. Then 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 97 

he may relieve his own overborne spirit by ex- 
clamations that even his sister Impulse would 
not consider wholly unworthy of the case : " 
the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom 
and knowledge of God! how unsearchable his 
judgments, and his ways past finding out! 
For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or 
who hath been his counselor ?" 

Now, as for Impulse, ardent as she naturally 
is, and disinclined to make allowance for the 
ordinary calmness of her more meditative 
brother, yet she cannot deny that he does oc- 
casionally exhibit a fervency that proves him 
to be nearly allied with herself. Walking out 
with her sister Charity one day, they perceived 
Contemplation in the midst of one of his most 
animated reveries, when he supposed no one 
was near, and overheard him talking to himself, 
and turning his vocal meditations into praise. 

Now, sister Impulse, said Charity, you per- 
ceive, after all your almost ungenerous suspi- 
cions, that our brother Contemplation has some- 
thing of a soul as well yourself. And if he is 
not at any time quite so rapturous as you are 
sometimes, (Impulse here blushed a little behind 
her ringlets,) yet you must not forget that you 
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98 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

yourself are not always on the mountain top. 
You remember it was only a day or two since 
that you were under the necessity of calling on 
sister Patience and brother Industry to help 
you to complete a little labor that you under- 
took so thoughtlessly and so hastily that you 
got out of breath before you had hardly begun. 

And, continued Charity, brother Truth told 
me that he believed you would have quite 
fainted and fallen to the ground, if sister Hope 
had not caught you in her arms, and fanned 
you vigorously with her promise-fan. And, my 
dear sister, you must not forget that Contempla- 
tion has helped you out of a good many embar- 
rassments that you might have avoided, if you 
had first gone to him for advice. You know 
that he has always been esteemed a very pru- 
dent person; and Truth himself is often in- 
debted to him for his greatest discoveries. 

Well, said Impulse, I must acknowledge that 
I have often done injustice to my meditative 
brother. But really he does seem sometimes 
so deliberate and unfeeling, when I can per- 
ceive enough to keep me in a tumult of emo- 
tion, that I have sometimes almost thought that 
be had no heart within his bosom. ' But then, 



IN, THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 99 

sister Charity, you know that I am naturally of 
a quick, excitable temperament ; and it is not 
easy for me to control myself, when I perceive 
a good reason to be excited ; and this is very 
frequent 

And you must recollect, replied Charity, 
that our sedate brother also has a native tem- 
perament, as well as yourself; and that it is as 
difficult for him to conduct himself unnaturally 
as it is for you. His temperament is truly very 
different from yours ; but has he not an appro- 
priate place, and an important work in our fam- 
ily ? What could we do, if we should be de- 
prived of our meditative brother ? Have we 
ever found a more prudent and safe adviser ? 
Can it be possible that Truth and Patience 
could find so much enjoyment and so much ben- 
efit from their intimate association with him, 
if he were not a person of unusual excellence 
and information ? 

Well, I will try, said Impulse, to treat my so- 
ber-minded brother with more courtesy and 
respect hereafter. But, after all, it does appear 
to me that he would be of much more conse- 
quence, if he were a little more animated and 
companionable than he is. I do not see why 



100 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

he seeks so frequently to be alone, when there 
is so much good society for him to associate 
with. And when he is in company, instead of 
taking part in the conversation, as others gen- 
erally do, he holds his head down, as if he were 
half asleep, and seems to care but little about 
what is going on. 

And may it not be, said Charity, that you 
go to the other extreme ? Do you not some- 
times put yourself forward too much, and speak 
and act without much discretion ? Have you 
not sometimes conducted yourself so that you 
have been almost ashamed to show yourself af- 
terwards? Is it not true, my sister, that you 
have spoken a great many times in a manner 
that was no advantage to your reputation as a 
person of discretion ? Have you not a thous- 
and times bitten your own lips with mortifica- 
tion at the recollection of improper speeches, 
and ill-advised or unadvised actions ? 

You must perceive, then, continued Charity, 
that you yourself might have been greatly ben- 
efited, if you had been a little more conversant 
with our contemplative brother ; or even if you 
were usually disposed to regard his peculiarities 
with a little more respect and approbation. 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 101 

He may indeed be a little unsocial in promiscu- 
ous society, where there is no important theme of 
conversation. But I have heard brother Truth 
remark, that in some of the more select and 
intelligent societies there is not a more agreea- 
ble and profitable visitor than this same sober- 
faced Contemplation. So, sister Impulse, be a 
little careful how you undervalue the peculiar 
yet most excellent qualities of our thoughtful 
brother. 

But Impulse is not the only one who is dis- 
posed to complain of the peculiarities of Con- 
templation. Industry finds some fault with him, 
because he seems to be so much of his time idle, 
or doing that which appears to little purpose. 
Industry sometimes expresses his conviction 
that Contemplation has hardly ever earned his 
own bread, or woven his own raiment. Indus- 
try asks whether it is likely that the ground 
would ever be plowed and sown, or the harvest 
gathered and stored, if all the rest of the fam- 
ily should labor with as little visible profit as 
Contemplation. 

And Zeal almost gets out of patience with 
him, on account of his motions being so sluggish, 
and his efforts so inefficient in the performance 



102 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

of manual labor. But Zeal and Industry are 
both indebted to him more than they may be 
apprised of; for he sometimes renders them 
more service by thinking and planning, than 
they render each other by strength and haste. 

Contemplation has his own work to do ; and 
it is not the less labor because it is silent and 
slow. His weariness of brain is weariness in- 
deed; and the sweat of his soul is as truly a 
sign of toil as the sweat of their brow. He 
does more for the general weal than he usually 
gets credit for, and receives a great many illib- 
eral hints about indolence and profitless labor 
that he never deserves. What he does do 
may seem to be almost without value, and to 
result from but little toil ; but it is really indis- 
pensable in its place, and by no means easily 
done. Zeal could never have patience, nor In- 
dustry skill, to accomplish what Contemplation 
performs. They are as unfit for his labor as he 
for theirs ; and neither could be spared without 
loss to the others. 

And it is just as evident that Impulse has an 
appropriate place in the Divine Family, and an 
important part to perform in the general enter- 
prise, as with respect to Truth or Zeal, or any of 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 103 

the rest. She frequently finds Industry nod- 
ding over his daily labor, and even Zeal fast 
asleep, and runs to arouse them to renew their 
efforts. She rarely fails to excite the slumbering 
and the sluggish, if she can only succeed in ob- 
taining a hearing. She is usually very eloquent 
in her appeals, and she understands the different 
temperaments like a book. Indeed, it is doubt- 
ful if any one is a better judge of taste and dis- 
position. She knows how to adapt herself to 
all, and be alike pleasing to all, however they 
may differ among themselves. 

She can do but little to excite Justice or 
Truth, for they are so constitutionally com- 
posed, that it would be about as easy to change 
them into some other beings, as to render them 
very susceptible to the influence of Impulse. 
She is perfectly apprised of this herself, and 
does not often waste her breath in trying to 
excite them. She finds it is best usually to let 
them move along with their own leisurely gait. 
Truth has sometimes suffered himself to be- 
come excited by the appeals of Impulse, and 
tried his hand at doing his work in haste, but 
he always made such bungling work of it, that 
it is pretty generally agreed that Truth cannot 



104 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

be hurried with any sort of advantage. He 
moves slow and sure, and does not like to have 
his equanimity disturbed by his excited and ex- 
citing sister. 

And the same is true of Justice. He cannot 
safely do his work in a hurry. It is even less 
proper for him to be excited than for some of 
the others. Industry might be aroused, and al- 
most put the blush upon Zeal, and no great 
harm would be likely to result. Even Charity 
and Mercy might be greatly quickened with- 
out appearing to disadvantage. But such is 
the constitutional traits and the official duties 
of Justice, that he appears to great disadvan- 
tage when he becomes excited. His counte- 
nance then assumes an expression of fury, and 
he speaks and acts as if he were taking ven- 
geance, instead of merely administering judi- 
cial rewards. 

But although Impulse may not succeed ad- 
vantageously with all, she does with some. Ap- 
pealing to Liberty, in behalf of himself and 
others, she sometimes effects wonderful results 
in an almost incredibly short season. Blending 
her influence with Faith and Hope, she causes 
one to chase a thousand, and two to put ten 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATIONS. 105 

thousand to flight. Under her animating ap- 
peals she makes the feeble to feel strong, and 
the timid to feel brave. The wearied and the 
sickly she invigorates, so that they may run 
through a troop and leap over a wall. King- 
doms have been upheaved as by an earthquake, 
and thrones overturned, and towers demol- 
ished, and scepters broken, when she has suc- 
ceeded in her powerful appeals. 

Impulse has all kinds of arguments for all 
sorts of persons. With the timid she best suc- 
ceeds by appealing to their fears. She por- 
trays in the most vivid colors some terrible 
scene that cannot be looked upon without be- 
ing aroused. In a thousand ways she manages 
to influence the fearful; and she is just as well 
prepared to excite the fearless. She appeals 
to the ambitious tendencies of the courageous, 
and impels them forward through toils and 
dangers, holding before them the crown and 
the glory of the final triumph. 

No one of the Divine Family is more easily 
influenced by Impulse than Hope. These two 
sisters, with some striking dissimilarities, are 
exceedingly alike. But Hope is more spirit- 
ual; Impulse more material. Hope has more 
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106 CONTEMPLATION AND IMPULSE 

respect to the future ; Impulse more to the pres- 
ent. Hope is more serene and happy ; Impulse 
more excited and mighty. Hope is better to 
persevere ; Impulse better to rise and begin. 
Hope scatters the seed, and patiently waits to 
gather ; while Impulse plants, and watches the 
changing weather. Hope looks for the harvest, 
no matter how bad the season ; but Impulse 
wishes each moment to furnish its reason. The 
former has more of happiness ; the latter has 
more of wretchedness. The one overlooks the 
present in her expectation of the future'; the 
other loses sight of the future in her sensibil- 
ity of the present. 

Impulse does not rank as high as Hope, as it 
respects intelligence; but she is Hope's supe- 
rior, in respect to sensibility. In her most 
chastened exercise of pleasure and devotion, 
she is but little above the higher nights of her 
brother Contemplation. When they chant di- 
vine praise together, Contemplation performs 
the principal part of the grateful melody that 
rehearses the loving kindness of God, while 
Impulse, with gushing emotions, intersperses 
the rehearsal with frequent hallelujahs. When 
Impulse leads off with rapturous thanksgivings 



IN THEIR DIFFERENT VOCATION'S. 107 

Contemplation watches every opportunity to re- 
peat a Selah. 

Contemplation and Impulse are well adapted 
to help each other in almost every department 
of mutual labor ; and they never do better for 
themselves than when they are most familiarly 
connected. Each is a good prompter, or a 
good check, upon the other ; and neither could 
be spared from the Divine Family without in- 
calculable loss. They are never more truly 
happy and good than when they unite their 
friendly hands together, and associate for mu- 
tual improvement in all that permits them to 
combine. 



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ANALYSIS. 

Zeal's Temperament — More Valued than Loved — Characteristics 
— Family Restraints — Mercy tries to Govern Zeal — Her Failure — 
Zeal's Honest Confession — Charity not so Successful with him as 
Mercy — How Mercy can Affect him — Zeal and Charity not on In- 
timate Terms — Liberty and Zeal Love each other — Zeal and Truth 
Disagree — The two Brothers Associated — Zeal's Feet better than 
his Eyes — Truth's Eyes better than his Feet — Zeal's Usefulness in 
the Family — Why he is not more Beloved — The Mother's Regard 
for Him — His Office — Zeal Better than he Looks or Behaves. 



ZEAL. 

"His Zeal 

None seconded, as out of season judged, 
Or singular and rash." 

Milton. 

"Press bravely onward ; not in vain 

Your generous trust in human kind ; 
The good which bloodshed could not gain 
Your peaceful Zeal shall find." 

Whittier. 

" It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." 

Gal. iv. 18. 

"Yea, what vehement desire! Yea, what Zeal! " 

2 Cor. vii. 11. 



CHAPTER VII 

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BCEXT appears a noble son 

\L whose name is Zeal. Ardent in his 
temperament, and rapid in his thoughts, with 
an active hand and a nimble foot, he is always 
ready for every work that promises good. He 
is more valued for his valuable services, than 
loved for his lovable qualities. He is natu- 
rally inclined to be a little rash and overbear- 
ing ; frequently taxing the tenderness of Char- 
ity and Mercy ; almost alarming the sensitive- 
ness of Justice, and awakening the apprehen- 
sions of complacent Truth. 

But in the Divine Family there is not a nat- 
urally nobler heart than beats in the honest 
breast of Zeal. His greatest difficulty is the 
natural warmth of his temper, which often be- 
trays him into unguarded expressions, and hasty 
deeds. His feelings are usually quite intense, 



112 ZEAL AND 

and lie speaks habitually with corresponding 
warmth. He is never at rest himself, and he 
likes to have everything in motion around him. 
And if matters do not move ahead pretty rap- 
idly, under the highest kind of pressure, he 
usually gets a little impatient, and is apt to 
scold. 

If it were not for the amiable dispositions of 
the rest of the family, Zeal would be very 
likely to occasion some little trouble amongst 
them. He does not seem to have a great 
amount of sympathy; and, though he always 
means well, he frequently injures the feelings 
of others by the roughness of his manners. 
Mercy sometimes undertakes to regulate his 
conduct, and teach him how to speak with more 
regard for the tender feelings of others. But 
— precious soul — she has her hands full, as the 
saying is, and frequently gives him up in de- 
spair. If she could only be with him all the 
time, and could know beforehand what he was 
about to say, she might, perhaps, by taking 
very great pains, train him to milder habits so 
that he would be less offensive. But as it is not 
possible for her to be with him at all times and 
places, nature will have its way, and she hears 



HIS ENTERPRISE. 113 

of what Zeal has said and done when she was 
not with him, and it occasions her great morti- 
fication and grief. 

Zeal does sometimes make a full confession 
of his uncultivated manners and hasty words ; 
and makes a thousand promises to be more 
guarded in the future. But he breaks out in 
his old habits again, and becomes discouraged, 
and says there is but little use in his trying to 
be unlike himself, or like any other. He does 
about as well as he knows how, he thinks ; and 
congratulates himself that he is ever sincere in 
all he does ; and carefully avoids some things 
which are done by others, which to him seem 
worse than what he allows himself to do. 

Charity unites with Mercy in the endeavor 
to soften the manners of Zeal ; but the result 
is far from being encouraging. He has a great 
deal of natural obstinacy, in connection with his 
habitual warmth, and is not easy to be con- 
trolled. Charity solemnly assures him that 
milder manners and softer words would be for 
his advantage in every enterprise in which he 
labors. But he sometimes retorts, that a little 
more fire and energy would be as much for her 

advantage, as a little less would be for him. 

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114 ZEAL AND 

What is the use, he asks sometimes, for one to 
have a strong arm and a nimble foot, if they 
are never to be used ? Of what use, he will 
inquire, is a sabre's edge, if it is never to be 
drawn from the scabbard ? 

Charity, in fact, has less influence over Zeal 
than even Mercy ; for he can withstand her 
mild apologies, and courteous admonitions, bet- 
ter than he can endure Mercy's tears. Indeed, 
Zeal has, after all, more regard for feelings 
than for courtesies. He has a tender spot some- 
where away down in his heart, that Mercy fully 
understands in all its aptitudes and tenderness, 
and knows just how to touch when she appeals 
to Zeal. And Zeal cares so comparatively lit- 
tle for the superficial customs and courtesies 
of life, that he can disregard them, whenever 
they obtrude themselves in his way, and fetter 
his free motions, far easier than he can know- 
ingly offend and grieve the tender heart. 

Zeal and Charity are never much together, 
unless they both happen to agree in their pur- 
suit ; then Zeal and Charity are on the best of 
terms, and she commends him for his ardent 
love. But usually their courses lead in differ- 
ent directions ; and Zeal has too much stub- 



HIS ENTERPRISE. 115 

bornness to leave his own selected path, and 
walk with Charity. And she has too much 
principle to be persuaded hastily to wander 
from her way of peace, and run with Zeal. 

Liberty and Zeal are much more similar in 
their looks and dispositions, than Zeal and 
Truth. Truth was always a little too slow for 
Zeal, and could never endure such a rapid 
pace. He has always been somewhat inclined 
to linger by the way side, to examine and re- 
flect ; and Zeal usually travels along in such a 
hurry, without stopping to notice anything, 
that Truth gets out of strength and out of 
breath. He has a leisurely, dignified gait, that 
is as unlike the striding, springing pace of Zeal, 
as a snail is unlike a bird ; and he cannot en- 
dure to be hurried beyond his natural gait. 

So these two brothers — Zeal and Truth — do 
not very cordially agree. But they love one 
another too well to quarrel. It is noticeable, 
however, that though one can travel faster than 
the other in a plain highway, yet the other can 
travel more safely in a difficult one. Zeal — ■ 
though he dislikes to confess it — is a little near- 
sighted, and cannot see far ahead, even in clear 
daylight; and his vision is likewise defective 



116 ZEAL AND 

in its capacity for receiving light ; and he can- 
not see very well after the sun goes down, or 
when the sky is covered with clouds. He often 
stumbles over the impediments in the highway, 
and runs into difficulty when he seeks a path 
for himself through the wilderness, or across 
the fields. If his eyes were only as good as his 
feet, he would be the best traveler in the world ; 
but, with defective vision, and natural rashness, 
too, his nimble feet are of little service in re- 
spect to going ahead. 

Truth, on the other hand, has excellent eyes, 
and can see a great ways off, and in almost any 
condition of the light. Truth can travel bet- 
ter in a cloudy day, or by starlight, than Zeal 
can do when the sun shines never so brightly. 
And, although Truth moves along so deliber- 
ately, resting very frequently, and examining 
his steps carefully, yet he often overtakes Zeal, 
helps him out of his troubles, and passes lei- 
surely along. 

Notwithstanding the great dissimilarities of 
taste and inclination in the Divine Family, yet 
they are usually enabled to work together with 
great advantages and harmony. Liberty would 
half the time be slumbering at his post, if 



HIS ENTERPRISE. 117 

wakeful Zeal did not run to rouse him up. 
And Truth— always suspected of being a little 
lazy — would be altogether more sluggish, if 
Zeal did not hurry him on. Complacent Char- 
ity would be too much for sleep inclined, if ac- 
tive Zeal did not excite her sweet and quiet 
mind, with strong entreaties and appeals for all 
of human kind. She is greatly indebted for 
her goodness and efficiency to his more bluff 
and ardent energy. 

And Mercy- — the tender-hearted — the usu- 
ally excited Mercy, is sometimes inclined to 
linger at her work, and accomplish next to 
nothing, from indolence or timidity of heart, 
and let the victim suffer. But Zeal — when he 
finds her lingering — speaks sharply in her ear ; 
and, with a few impressive, energetic gestures, 
thoroughly arouses her to tears and supplica- 
tions ; so that in a single hour she may accom- 
plish what — if it were not for Zeal — would 
take her months or years to do. 

And Faith and Justice are likewise under 
obligations to Zeal for the successful perform- 
ance of their respective parts in the general 
enterprise. Faith, without the aid of Zeal, 
has never yet accomplished much ; and even 



118 ZEAL AND 

Justice needs the zealot's nimble feet to over- 
take the culprit in his flight. There is not a 
member of the Divine Family that Zeal has 
not assisted ; not one but owes to him the 
praise of much of their success. Yet he is not 
very popular in the family circle. 

Perhaps this arises in part from the peculiar 
and somewhat unpleasant mission which he is 
employed to fulfill. Without seeming to have 
any other particular department in the general 
work, he appears to have been designed as a 
kind of general overseer to keep every one else 
at work. And in his endeavors to accomplish 
this he probably labors harder than all of the 
rest. For Zeal is so ambitious and energetic 
himself, that he cannot bear to see any one 
wasting time in idleness, or laboring with half a 
heart ; and he frequently is somewhat rough — 
and some have said severe — in his unpleasant, 
arduous task, as general overseer. 

Now the Divine Mother, who has no local or 
selfish bias, but views all things in the most 
comprehensive manner, — has an affection for 
Zeal as great, perhaps, as for any other mem- 
ber of her family. She understands his natural 
disposition, and fully appreciates the value of 



HIS ENTERPRISE. 119 

his energetic ambition, when properly directed. 
And, perceiving his native temperament and 
adaptation, it was by her own appointment 
that he was made the vigorous overseer of the 
other members of the household. And the 
probability is that he is more approved by her, 
than beloved by them. 

It is undeniable that Zeal is not quite so en- 
gaging in his manners, nor quite so lovely in 
his looks, as several of the others. He always 
speaks more forcibly than pleasantly ; more ef- 
fectively than popularly. His voice is more 
thrilling than charming ; and his visage more 
impressive than handsome. He is bolder than 
prudent ; stronger than wise. He is more re- 
spected than courted ; more valued than loved. 
He has a better heart than he seems to have ; 
and will be praised hereafter more highly than 
at present. 



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ANALYSIS. 

A Twin Brother of Zeal — Resemblance and Contrast — Reputa- 
tion — Real Character — Methods and Success — Reasons — Industry 
in a Race with Zeal — Who gets the Start— Who Comes out Ahead 
— Zeal and Industry at Work — Which is most Successful — Indus- 
try's Deportment and Temper — Relative and Real Excellence — A 
Servant for All without being a Servant to Any — How he is Es- 
teemed in the Family — His Monuments. 



INDUSTRY. 

" Industry — 
To meditate, to plan, resolve, perform, 
Which in itself is good — as surely brings 
Reward of good, no matter what be done." 

Pollock. 

"There was no need, 
In those good times, of trim calisthenics, — 
And there was less of gadding, and far more 
Of home-born, heart-felt comfort, rooted strong 
In Industry, and bearing such rare fruit 
As wealth may never purchase." 

Mrs. Sigourney. 

"And Solomon seeing the young man that he was Industrious, 
he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph." 

1 Kings, xi. 28. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

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fEAL has a twin brother whose 
name is Industry. Born at the same 
birth, fostered with the same cherishing, these 
two brothers — with some slight resemblances — 
are exceedingly dissimilar. Industry was never 
quite so vigorous as Zeal. He is generally sup- 
posed to be a little sickly ; and some, indeed, 
have softly said he was a little lazy. Yet no 
one could ever ascertain that he was in the 
habit of wasting his time, or was "ever unwilling 
to work. 

Industry never failed to perform his part of 
the work ; though he has generally occupied a 
little more time than some of the others would 
have required. And he has always had the 
reputation of doing his work well. His mo- 
tions are usually rather sluggish, and appa- 
rently with effort ; yet he seems to get along 



124 INDUSTRY AND 

without much difficulty, weariness, or pain. He 
may appear very slow at the beginning of his 
labor, and quite unpromising in respect to the 
result ; but after he gets fairly into his work, 
and, as the saying is, pretty well warmed up, 
he does really, somehow or other, accomplish a 
good deal in the end. 

No one has ever proved that Industry is 
lacking in skill, deficient in genius, or fickle in 
his plans. Yet a degree of mystery accompa- 
nies all his efforts, for he always succeeds better 
than would be anticipated when he commences ; 
and he does his work more skillfully than any 
one would suppose from his usual pretensions. 
Yet he has no secret acts to conceal ; and he 
succeeds better than he anticipates for himself. 
He always works openly, with the simplest 
methods, and the most ordinary tools. He is 
no magician ; no very great genius ; has not an 
uncommon knowledge of philosophy ; but has 
a great amount of common sense. 

The truth is, Industry is more laborious than 
vigorous ; more diligent than ardent ; more 
successful than boastful. When he makes a 
beginning it may appear quite uncertain how 
he will come to the fmishiDg ; and when he 



HIS DOINGS. 125 

completes, it appears just as wonderful how he 
ever began. But for faithful, unremitting, and 
finally successful labor, Industry is not behind 
the very chiefest of the Divine Family. 

In a long race Industry can outrun his 
brother Zeal. But his steps are more de- 
liberate, more regular, and altogether surer. 
Zeal gets up first in the morning, and keeps 
ahead until noon ; then, being rather wearied, 
he lies down and takes a nap. Industry starts 
in respectable season in the morning, plods 
along without rest or fatigue, overtakes Zeal 
before he is awake, passes by, and comes out 
ahead at night. 

Zeal sometimes arouses himself for some 
great undertaking, and, by making a happy hit 
at the right moment, may accomplish wonders 
in a very little time, and throw Industry quite 
into the shade. But his strength will not hold 
out for a great length of time, and he has soon 
to relinquish his labors and rest. But what 
Zeal can accomplish by fleetness or boldness, by 
genius or skill, Industry secures by patience of 
labor, and unyielding will. 

Industry is a very quiet and inoffensive mem- 
ber of the household : he is not in the habit 



126 INDUSTRY AND 

of talking loud ; never startles by the abrupt- 
ness of his manners ; never loses his temper at 
trifles ; never makes much complaint ; but goes 
about his business with a quiet gait, unobtru- 
sive and complaisant ; always ready to lend a 
hand where hands are needed ; caring but lit- 
tle what the labor is, if it only be useful, and 
pays well for the doing. 

On the whole, the Divine Family would be 
sadly deficient, if it were not for patient, labo- 
rious, willing Industry. True, he is not stri- 
kingly — yet he is extensively — useful. And 
sometimes he accomplishes what no other mem- 
ber of the family could possibly do. He, like- 
wise,, seems to have no specific department in 
the general enterprise, unless it be in the capa- 
city of assistant general, to lend a helping hand 
here and there, just as the general interest of the 
work may require. And, though not exactly a 
servant to any one, he does serve every one 
with submission, fidelity, and general profit. 

Without the capacity or charm to excite any 
very ardent or romantic affections in others ; 
without the genius to surprise them into impul- 
sive admiration and praise ; yet he has always 
been esteemed by sensible people as a well 



HIS ENTERPRISE. 127 

meaning, reliable, generally useful, and a really 
valuable member of the family. In intellect 
he is usually esteemed as about mediocre ; ordi- 
nary in his genius; defective in the higher 
grades of energy ; superior in application and 
perseverance. He belongs to that less fortu- 
nate class, who seldom attain to notoriety in 
the world, and are seldom prized according to 
their real worth. 

But the monuments of Industry are more 
enduring than the evanescent records of Zeal. 
From the lofty Coptic pyramids down to the 
microscopic needle ; from the long, deep, artifi- 
cial rivers that float loaded fleets over moun- 
tains, and across valleys and plains, to the tiny 
engine that includes infinite parts within finite 
measures ; the monuments of Industry are as 
numerous as ocean pebbles, and as durable as 
the ocean floods. 



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ANALYSIS. 

A Singular Person — Supposed Resemblances — Disposition — Par- 
tiality for Faith — General Cordiality — Uncertain Developments — 
Personal Qualities — Special Endowments — Profitable Assistant — 
Invaluable to Truth — To Faith — Partiality for Industry — Patience 
Comforted — How she Possesses her Soul — A Walk with Contem- 
plation — Pause by the Wayside — The Husbandman — Growing Corn 
— Conversation with a Laborer — Patience Surprised — Conversation 
Resumed — Walk Continued — Conversation with the Grafter — Al- 
most a Love Scene — The Silver Basket — Mr. Skill — Former Ac- 
quaintance — Patience not Recognized at First — Mr. Skill's Account 
of Himself — Pa-tience Recognized — Ambiguous Encouragement — 
The Parchment Note — The Grafter made Happy — Patience Eu- 
logized. 

F* 9 



PATIENCE. 

"Patience, my lord! why, 'tis the soul of peace; 
Of all the virtues 't is the nearest kin to heaven ; 
It makes men look like gods: the best of men 
That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer, 
A soft, meek, patient, tranquil spirit, 
The first true gentleman that ever breathed." 

Decker. 

" E'en the best must own, 
Patience and resignation are the pillars 
Of human peace on earth." 

Young. 

" How poor are they that have not Patience! 
"What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" 

Shakspeare. 

" Let Patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and 
entire, wanting nothing." 

James i. 4. 



CHAPTER IX. 

THERE is another daughter 
of the Divine Mother whose name is 
Patience. And a very singular person she is. 
It is difficult to tell whom she most resembles, 
or to whom most unlike. She seems to be a 
being by herself, unique in her disposition 1 and 
ways. And yet her relationship to the rest of 
the group is sufficiently apparent to all. 

It is generally thought that she is most like 
Industry, and least like Zeal. But respecting 
this, as well as many other points, opinions are 
not agreed. Perfectly at rest, she appears to 
have a slight resemblance to her brother Truth. 
When she smiles she looks a little like Charity ; 
and most like Mercy when she weeps. 

She is very quiet, inoffensive, unobtrusive, 
and amiable: a perfect stranger to passion, 
jealousy, and revenge. She was never known 



132 PATIENCE AND 

to become impatient, to fret, or to scold. She 
endeavors to get along with difficulties in the 
easiest possible way to others, and to herself. 
If she is disappointed, it would never be known 
by any loss of temper, or ill-humored expres- 
sion of her face. If she is grieved, she weeps 
silently, and alone, making no great ado about 
it, and always has deeper feeling than one would 
infer from her expression. If she is injured, 
she never complains, nor seems in a hurry to 
have the offender brought to punishment. 

Patience has a good share of the tempera- 
ment, and a little of the looks, of her sister 
Faith ; and usually appears to have more en- 
joyment in the society of Faith, than with any 
other member of the family. She always goes 
to her sister Faith for consolation and advice, 
when she is in trouble. Somehow or other 
Faith and Patience have always manifested 
more than usual regard for one another ; yet 
any one can easily see that Patience thinks 
more of Faith, than Faith of Patience. And 
yet the probability is that Faith has as much 
need of Patience, as Patience has of Faith. 
Though these two sisters are on rather more 
than usually intimate terms, yet Patience has 



HER ADVENTURES. 133 

always managed to be on excellent terms with 
all : if there have ever been any high words, or 
unpleasant contentions in the family, it is certain 
that Patience was never the first offender. She 
would rather be called a coward than quarrel- 
some ; and she would prefer to be injured her- 
self than to injure anybody else. 

Patience frequently has a languid look, and 
speaks usually with a feeble voice, as though 
she were somewhat infirm or weary. And yet 
she appears to be in pretty comfortable health ; 
certainly she is not much in the habit of com- 
plaining. Her somewhat languid look, and her 
feeble voice, are probably occasioned, not so 
much by the feebleness of her health, as by the 
uniform complacency of her mind, and her ex- 
ceeding mildness of disposition. 

Patience is by no means either sickly or im- 
becile ; she is, in some respects, the most capa- 
ble member of the family. In some things she 
is remarkably strong, and exhibits astonishing 
powers of endurance. And she has considera- 
ble courage, too, as well as ordinary strength. 
But as her strength is less adapted to doing 
than enduring, so her courage is less adapted 
to danger than to suffering. Her goodness ap- 



134 PATIENCE AND 

pears to be less active than passive. She is 
better qualified to be than to do. 

But Patience is by no means destitute of 
excellent positive qualities. She has habitual 
self-government, and uniform equanimity of 
temper. Like Charity, she suffers long, and is 
kind. Like Truth, she is deliberate, prudent, 
and intelligent. Like Faith, she possesses im- 
plicit confidence in the Divine promises, and 
reposes upon them as upon a pillow of down. 
Like Industry, she remains steadily and un- 
complainingly wherever duty demands. Like 
Mercy, she is very affectionate and careful of 
the feelings of other people. Like Justice, she 
always, and from principle, endeavors to be 
upright and equitable. Like Hope, she is ex- 
pecting that everything will finally work out 
for the best ; and, with Hope, and with better 
self-control, she is calmly waiting for the wished 
for period to come. 

And Patience is also very obliging in her 
disposition. She was never yet desired to ren- 
der appropriate assistance, without complying 
with the request. When Truth is engaged in 
collecting materials to build some magnificent 
ideal edifice, that shall stand safely amidst all 



HER ADVENTURES 135 

the storms and convulsions of the present world, 
there is not one of the Divine Family that ren- 
ders him more valuable and indispensable aid 
than his sister Patience. 

And when he is investigating some of the 
more abstruse and difficult of his philosophical 
and theological studies, there is not another 
person in the world whose services are of 
greater consequence than those of Patience. 
She keeps his records of dates, and facts, and 
principles, and names; she adds, subtracts, di- 
vides, and multiplies ; she measures, and weighs, 
and counts, and calculates ; — indeed, to say all 
in a word, she is not only as his right hand, but 
also as his eyes and ears, and even as his head 
to Truth. 

Faith would have lost half her joys, and 
more than half her potency, if her sister Pa- 
tience had not uniformly stood by her side in 
all her great undertakings. And Liberty owes 
more to Patience than to his helm and sword. 
He has lost a great many victories, because Pa- 
tience did not direct the campaign, and draw 
up the plan of the battle. 

But Industry, perhaps, more than any other 
member of the family, is impressed with the 



136 PATIENCE AND 

indispensable services of his sister Patience. 
She has habitually cheered, and otherwise as- 
sisted him, through all his arduous and pro- 
tracted labors. 

Nothing is more common, and nothing is 
more beautiful, than to see sober Industry bu- 
sily engaged in his work, with perhaps hardly 
a hope of ever finishing, while Patience is con- 
tentedly seated by his side, entertaining him 
with pleasant conversation, and sweet encourage- 
ments, so that Industry almost forgets his unre- 
mitting labors ; and days, and months, and 
years pass pleasantly away, and he hardly real- 
izes that the time is long. 

Patience used to sit by the side of Industry 
when he quarried out the monster blocks of 
granite from the Coptic hills, and chiseled them 
into obelisks, lintels, and columns, and in cu- 
rious hyeroglyphics engraved the history of 
many ages in their polished fronts ; and she 
aided him with her careful hands in every little 
letter, symbol, and device that aided to immor- 
talize the works of men whose names have long 
since perished. 

Patience is just as necessary in deep piety as 
Liberty or Faith. Many precious promises are 



HER ADVENTURES. 137 

made to her, which cannot be secured by any 
others. And many rich blessings she has ob- 
tained, which Faith, and Truth, and Justice, 
and Charity, even, have utterly failed to gain. 
One of the standard aphorisms of Patience is 
this : u It is good that a man should both hope 
and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord." * 

Another of the maxims of Patience, when 
she is afflicted, and tempted to give way to im- 
proper feelings, is thus expressed : " Fret not 
thyself because of evil doers ; neither be thou 
envious against the workers of iniquity." 
" Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. 
Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth 
in his way ; because of the man who bringeth 
wicked devices to pass." f It is in this way 
that Patience soothes herself, when difficulties 
trouble her, and the time of deliverance seems 
to be afar off. 

Some lose their souls through impatience, not 
being willing to wait until the Lord's time to 
rescue shall arrive. But Patience was one day 
sitting at the feet of Prince Immanuel, and 
heard some words fall from his lips which she 
deemed too precious to be lost, and she bor- 

* Lam. iii. 26. f Ps. xxxvii, 1, 7. 



138 PATIENCE AND 

rowed a diamond and engraved them upon a 
tablet, that she might never forget how to pre- 
serve her soul. The inscription reads thus : 
" In your Patience possess ye your souls." * 

Patience was one day walking out with her 
brother Contemplation, to collect some fruits 
for her nourishment ; and, as it happened, they 
went to a field by the way side, where some 
husbandmen were at work planting various 
kinds of seeds in the earth. So, not being in 
a hurry, Patience and Contemplation sat down 
on a seat which the laborers were accustomed 
to use when they got weary, and waited to see 
the laborers work. 

One of the husbandmen was planting corn : 
he took three or four kernels and covered them 
up in the ground, and then went along a step 
or two further and planted as many more. Con- 
templation said nothing ; but he had a great 
many thoughts. But Patience, not being very 
well acquainted with agriculture, and with 
times and seasons, and feeling a little natural 
curiosity about these things, thought there 
would be no harm in asking a question or two, 
that she might be better informed of matters 

*Luke xxi. 19. 



HER ADVENTURES. 139 

in which she felt a common- interest. So she 
inquired of one of the workmen how soon the 
corn would probably grow up and be gath- 
ered? (For Contemplation had already in- 
formed her that this was the method of procu- 
ring corn.) Well, said the workman, (whose 
name was Knowledge,) I do not expect to see 
the first blade before the early rains come down 
to moisten the ground, and cause the seed to 
germinate. 

Now Patience looked a little surprised at 
this, for Contemplation had already informed 
her that the early rains would not come until 
after the next change of the moon, which would 
not occur for nearly a whole week. Well, 
said she, venturing another question, will the 
corn grow right up, and get ripe, just as soon 
as the early rains come ? no, said the com- 
plaisant laborer, pleased with the opportunity 
of conversing with such a pleasant, quiet look- 
ing lady : no, "first the blade, then the ear, 
then the full corn in the ear." At this Patience 
was so much pleased and emboldened, that she 
asked another question : Well, (thanking you 
for your gentlemanly courtesy,) after the blade, 
and then the ear, how long before the full corn 



110 PATIENCE AND 

in the ear ? As to that, replied the workman, 
it will depend upon the latter rains : if they 
come on as usually, it will be perhaps about three 
months; but if they should be delayed — as 
they are sometimes — it may be one or two 
weeks, or a month later. 

Now Patience was greatly surprised at this : 
she did not know but corn would grow right 
up, ready to be gathered into the garner, 
within a day or two after it began to appear. 
She thought that she would not show her igno- 
rance any further, by asking any more ques- 
tions ; so she and Contemplation went along a 
little ways, and stood leaning over the wall, to 
see one of the workmen grafting a little scion 
from one tree into the stock of another. 

Now, this was a greater mystery to Patience 
than the manner of growing corn; and she 
thought there would be no harm in asking the 
gentleman' — whose name was Skill — what 
would result from putting that little sprig into 
that old barren stock ? And she was greatly 
surprised to be informed, that the little sprout 
would, after a while, bear fruit in that old stock, 
just like the fruit that grew on its native tree. 

But how long, said Patience, if I may be al- 



HER ADVENTURES. 141 

lowed to inquire, before the scion will begin to 
bear ? That will depend materially upon the 
manner in which the grafting is performed, said 
the workman. (And all the time he was so 
busily and intently occupied with some delicate 
and difficult part of the process of grafting, 
and looking down, too, as became necessary, 
that he did not look up to see who it was that 
conversed with him. Now, if the truth must 
be revealed, this Mr. Skill and Patience had 
become considerably well acquainted sometime 
before this, when he was trying to learn the 
art of bringing forth good fruit from an evil 
tree.) 

After a little, (Mr. Skill having completed 
the process, and examined it carefully, without 
saying a word,) after a little he finished his re- 
ply by saying — If the grafting is as well per- 
formed as I have the reputation of doing it, 
and if the seasons should prove favorable, the 
scion will grow several inches this summer ; 
and next season — if nothing happens unfa- 
vorably — it will probably put out a few 
blossoms and perhaps bear two or three ap- 
ples ; and, after several years, it may perhaps 



142 PATIENCE AND 

yield golden apples enough to fill a basket 
of silver.* 

And can you wait so long? inquired Pa- 
tience. (And perceiving that Mr. Skill was 
going to lift up his head and look at her, she al- 
tered her voice a little, and partially concealed 
her features, so that he might not recognize 
her.) Can you wait so long ? she inquired. 
yes, replied he ; that is as soon as we could 
reasonably expect to obtain so much good fruit 
from such a little sprig. And, with that, he 
took up another little scion, and proceeded to 
engraft it upon another part of the old stock ; 
and he seemed all the time to be so composed 
and contented that Patience was greatly pleased 
with his looks and manners, and felt her heart 
warm toward him with affectionate admiration. 

So, not being in haste, and really enjoying 
the conversation of Me. Skill, Patience ven- 
tured to make another inquiry : (and Contem- 
plation noticed that her voice trembled a little 
more than usual, as if her question implied 
more than it expressed:) And pray inform me, 
if you please, said she, how it is that you are so 

*" Apples of gold in pictures of silver." Pro v. xxv, 11. Proba- 
bly open work silver fruit baskets, enchased or embossed with 
flowers, such as are still in use in oriental countries. 



HER ADVENTURES. 143 

contented and happy in your expectation of 
waiting so long a time for a basket full of fruit. 
0, as to that matter, replied the man, (and 
Patience, looking through her veil, thought he 
was uncommonly good looking, and well be- 
haved,) as to that matter, when I was serving 
my apprenticeship, I became well acquainted 
— and I am not ashamed to say, as deeply in- 
terested — with one of my Mistress's daugh- 
ters who was called by the name (because she 
had the disposition of) Patience. (Here Con- 
templation found that his sister was leaning 
very languidly upon his arm.) And — contin- 
ued he — as we were of necessity much of the 
time together, (being for the time under the 
same roof, and eating at the same table,) she 
had the kindness to instruct me how to control 
my naturally ardent and impatient temper, so 
that I soon began to feel myself happy and re- 
signed under all my arduous and difficult la- 
bors; and, at the present, so thoroughly have 
I been disciplined under her most excellent ex- 
ample and instructions, that I find myself re- 
signed and happy everywhere, especially when 
I find myself usefully employed in doing that 
which promises to me and many others much 



144 PATIENCE AND 

of future good. And, besides, continued he, 
(growing still more ardent in his manner,) I 
have for Patience such profound regard and 
admiration, and such a pleasure in doing what 
I think she would be pleased with, that I 
never feel more happy than when I am em- 
ployed in such a way as I am sure she would 
approve, if she were to come along and see me 
at my work. 

With this, he noticed that the lady was much 
affected ; and looking very sharply into her 
face, he perceived that it was Patience her- 
self; and, with many happy blushes, he pro- 
ceeded with his work. But she was not wil- 
ling that he should go on without a little more 
encouragement, (since he had made such ex- 
cellent use of previous lessons,) and she told 
him that she was not only gratified with his 
great improvement of manners, but was re- 
ally pleased with his agreeable person ; and 
hoped their former acquaintance — which was 
so profitable and agreeable to her — might be 
continued. And, said she, if you continue to 
improve as well for the future as you have 
during the past, you may be fully assured that 
the end shall be as happy as you can de- 



HER ADVENTURES. 145 

sire. (Now she said this ambiguously as if it 
applied to gathering fruit ; but really — and Mr. 
Skill guessed it was so— intending it to apply 
to any future acquaintance or association that 
might be permitted in the Divine Family.) 

So they separated: Mr. Skill going on with 
his work, Contemplation and Patience continu- 
ing their walk. But while they were in con- 
versation together, Contemplation dropped a 
little note, which he had written on a slip of 
parchment, unnoticed by Patience, and Mr. 
Skill picked it up and read it. Now these are 
the words of the note : "Ye have need of Pa- 
tience, that, after ye have done the will of 
God, ye might receive the promise." * Mr. 
Skill put this little note into his bosom, and 
began to sing as he resumed his work. 

As the two passed along, Contemplation was 
so deeply absorbed in his thoughts that he 
spake aloud to himself, without being sensible 
of what he was doing : " Behold, the husband- 
man waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, 
and hath long Patience for it, until he receive 
the early and the latter rain." f And Patience 
repeated to herself: " God will render eternal 

* Heb. x. 36. \ James v. 7. 

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146 PATIENCE AND HER ADVENTURES. 

life unto them who, by patient continuance in 
well doing, seek for glory, and honor, and im- 
mortality. " * 

It is not surprising that Patience is loved by 
those who become acquainted with her, for she 
is, indeed, an unusually lovable person. But 
she is so unobtrusive and retiring in her man- 
ners that but few become intimately acquainted 
with her excellent qualities. But she, as a la- 
borer, accomplishes more than she is credited 
for ; and she helps others to success in their 
most difficult labors. She accomplishes more 
by submission than by might. 

The presence of Patience is always soothing. 
Her voice is always quieting. She remains 
calm in tumult ; quiet in danger ; forbears to 
threaten ; delays to punish ; is easily pacified ; 
as readily gratified ; and as ready to bless. 
Happy the home where Patience dwells ! Hap- 
py the pathway where she lingers! Happy 
the labor where she assists! Happy the ec- 
stacy that she subdues ! Happy the death- 
bed where she attends ! Happy the heaven to 
which she leads ! 

* Rom. ii 7. 



fantiliti,. t\t familg Pmtitm 



ANALYSIS. 

Twin Sister — Name — Features — Not Extensively Acquainted- 
Explanations — Characteristic Appearance — Taste, Habits, and Car- 
riage — Office and Qualifications — Faithfulness — Admonishes Lib- 
ert}- — Charity, Mercy, and Faith need her Instructions — Trouble 
with Hope — Hope's Mirthfulness — Humility Perplexed — Hope En- 
couraged by Others — Her Conscientiousness — Hope Lectured on 
Conduct and Dress — Humility's Judicious Allowance for Natural 
Disposition and Official Station — Divine Mother's Esteem for Hu- 
mility — Humility's Expectation — The Twin Sisters Compared To- 
gether. 



HUMILITY. 

" Her voice was soft, 
Gentle and low ; — an excellent thing in woman." 

Shakspeare. 

" The meek mountain daisy, with delicate crest, 
And the violet whose e} T e told the heaven of her breast." 

Mrs. Sigourney. 

" There are some that use 
Humility to serve their pride, and seem 
Humble upon their way, to be the prouder 
At their wished journey's end." 

Denham. 

" I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a 
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and 
to revive the heart of the contrite ones." 

Isa. lvii. 15. 

"Before honor is Humility." 

Prov. xv. 33. 



CHAPTER X. 

littmtlttg, fjre Jfamilg Pontes. 

FATIENCE has a twin sister, 
as mild in disposition, as modest in man- 
ners, and as kindly at heart, as Patience her- 
self. She goes by the name of Humility, and 
she is most appropriately named. She gener- 
ally has a healthier look than Patience, and is 
usually esteemed as the better looking lady of 
the two, but not the better behaved ; though 
no possible fault can be charged upon the ap- 
pearance of either. 

Neither of these sisters can boast of a very 
extensive circle of intimates; for they have 
never been much accustomed to going into pro- 
miscuous society, having usually confined their 
visits to select assemblies, where but few were 
in the habit of coming together ; or preferring 
altogether to remain at home in the closest do- 
mestic retirement with their Divine Mother, 



150 HUMILITY, THE 

and a few of her more select and respectable 
friends. 

But it would not be strictly true to represent 
that Patience and Humility were either hermits 
or nuns, or that they were not fond of good so- 
ciety ; for there are many proofs of the genial- 
ity and sociableness of their dispositions, and 
of their greatly delighting in the society of 
such friends as manifest an affection for them, 
and a tender respect for their somewhat pecu- 
liar and rather unpopular notions about the 
dress and conversation of females who are in 
the habit of going into public society. 

The principal reason why these two sisters 
are not more extensively and more favorably 
known appears to be this : they have very few 
invitations to go into society, for some rea- 
son or other, and they are too modest to ob- 
trude themselves into company where they are 
not invited. They have never been truly ac- 
cused of treating any invitation with discour- 
tesy, or of setting themselves up to be better 
than other people, as a reason for not going 
more frequently abroad. 

Patience and Humility are somewhat similar 
in their features, rather more than in disposition, 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 151 

carriage, or dress. Humility has a very sweet, 
modest, expressive countenance, full of intelli- 
gence and amiableness, which no sensible per- 
son can look upon without loving. And she 
carries herself with such a quiet, unassuming, 
natural grace, that, with womanly wisdom and 
maturity, she has all the unaffected artlessness 
of a little child. 

Humility, without being mean, is modest; 
without vanity, dignified ; without effort, pleas- 
ing. She unconsciously wins her way to all 
hearts, for, little as she is known, no one can 
help loving her, if they have anything lovable 
in themselves. No one is disposed to resist her, 
and she usually succeeds better than she antici- 
pates, and accomplishes more than she intends, 
or deems herself capable of doing. And she 
is not disposed to take any credit to herself 
even when others are willing to bestow it 
cheerfully. 

Humility has very mild, beautiful eyes, rather 
downcast in their common expression, and usu- 
ally almost concealed under her long, drooping 
eye-lashes ; and yet her eyes are by no means 
destitute of brilliancy, though their brightness 
is of a peculiarly subdued, and melting kind, 



152 HUMILITY, THE 

very pleasant and refreshing to look upon, as 
the sun's meridian rays softened by a medium 
tinged with azure. Her voice is rather low in 
its tones, natural, and musical ; and whether 
what she says be deemed superior or not, her 
manner of speaking is so naturally unaffected 
and pleasing, that no one wishes her to stop be- 
fore she has finished what she desired to say. 
Her style of speaking has more power of per- 
suasion than argumentative logic and thunder- 
ing tones. 

Humility puts on no affected, airs, for the 
purpose of giving consequence to her appear- 
ance ; and she never undertakes to create a sen- 
sation by arraying herself extravagantly or 
decking herself ornamentally, in order to ap- 
pear captivatingly. She has too much good 
sense, and too much good natural taste to 
blunder in such an egregious way. She arrays 
herself always tastefully and becomingly, not 
by consulting illustrations of the latest fashions, 
but by a natural intuition which is in no more 
danger of misleading her, than the instinctive 
taste for honey is likely to mislead a bee. And 
she looks best, and feels best, and is best, in the 
simplest costume, if it be only well fitted, (for 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 153 

she is well shaped,) properly colored, and be- 
coming. 

No one should suppose for a moment that 
Humility is destitute of taste, or indifferent to 
her outward appearance; for she is exquisitely 
sensitive in respect to some things, and almost 
fastidious about her personal appearance. She 
could not bear the thought of going into com- 
pany with an ill-fitting, untidy, or otherwise 
unsuitable dress. But she differs from some 
others in respect to what is the most becoming 
drapery for a modest lady. As for herself, she 
does not fancy gaudy colors, glaring ornaments, 
or flaunting styles. They may become others, 
she says, quite well ; but, then, you know, (as 
she is accustomed to remark,) they do not be- 
come me, for I am rather plain looking, and 
never paint, and such glaring, flaunting fash- 
ions — if by nothing more than contrast — would 
make me appear more homely than I am. And, 
says she — with a very slight blush — it is natu- 
ral and proper, perhaps, for us all to appear as 
well as we can, without practicing any decep- 
tive arts to set off our persons. 

And Humility is just as careful to be in good 
taste in respect to all her words and actions, as 
G* 



154 HUMILITY, THE 

in respect to her dress. She would as lief be 
seen in an unbecoming dress, as to appear out 
of season, out of place, ilhniannered, or ill-na- 
tured. She knows what is appropriate for her 
character, just as well as she knows what is be- 
coming for her person. And it is a part of her 
religion to be and to appear consistent with 
herself in all things. 

Humility has an important mission to fulfill 
in the Divine Family. It is so easy and so nat- 
ural for people — even for good people — to be- 
come vain and self-sufficient, whenever they 
are gratified with success in their pursuits, that 
it has been found necessary to have some one 
appointed to the special work of noticing and 
correcting all forms and degrees of pride, and 
self-sufficiency in the family of the Divine 
Mother. And by universal agreement it has 
been decided that Humility is best qualified to 
act as the Monitress for all the others. So she 
has been chosen to that office, although she 
very earnestly assured them that she felt her- 
self utterly incompetent and unworthy to oc- 
cupy so exalted and so responsible a position in 
the family. 

And, diffident as Humility is, it is pleasing to 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 155 

witness her unflinching faithfulness in admon- 
ishing and instructing her superiors, whenever 
she deems them deficient in excellency, or in 
need of advice, in that particular department 
which she knows — and remembers that they 
know — has been placed under her official su- 
pervision. For she does not deem it inappro- 
priate for her to perform all parts of the duties 
pertaining to the exalted office which she is 
conscious of having never sought, but she has 
been called to fill by the altogether unsolicited 
suffrages of others, freely exercised. 

Liberty frequently needs the admonitions of 
the unassuming Monitress ; for he is tempted 
— from the very nature of his calling — to be- 
come vain and boastful, and thus to lay himself 
open to the unsuspected assaults of his wary 
enemies. She gently suggests to him that it 
would be advisable to be always on the watch 
against the secret attacks of Pride, his most 
bitter and crafty adversary. And she reminds 
him frequently — when she perceives it to be 
necessary — " that the race is not to the swift, 
nor the battle to the strong." She kindly, but 
very solemnly, admonishes him not to vaunt 
himself, and boast of his exploits, for he gets 



156 HUMILITY, THE 

not the victory by his own arm, neither does 
he discomfit his enemies by the sharpness of his 
own sword. She tells him that it is not by 
might, nor by power, but by the Holy Spirit. 

One of the habitual expressions of the faith- 
ful Monitress is this : " Pride goeth before de- 
struction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." 
If she sees a look of self-sufficiency, or hears 
an expression that sounds like vanity, she in- 
stantly — as her office requires — sounds an alarm 
in the boastful ear. And, as courageous as 
Liberty usually is, he is often made to tremble 
for fear of being slain, when the Monitress so 
faithfully performs her official duty. 

Even Mercy, with all her tenderness, and 
Charity, with all her gentleness, sometimes 
give occasion for Humility's admonitions. She 
perceives that no position in society, and no 
natural or religious maturity, are beyond the 
limits of danger, and the necessity of watching 
unto prayer. Hence she keeps a sharp look- 
out for the least beginnings of vanity or pride, 
knowing that the largest trees were once noth- 
ing but little germs, though now their branches 
brush the flying clouds, and their spreading 
roots embrace a thousand rocks. And so the 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 157 

most gigantic and prolific evils that grow within 
the soul, as the tall forests in the fertile soil, 
may begin as little germs, almost invisible, and 
root themselves, and grow, and spread them- 
selves, until the heart is wholly occupied, and 
room cannot be found for grace to flourish. 

Even Faith is not secure from vanity and 
pride. And Hope needs constant watching by 
Humility. Hope is constitutionally inclined to 
lofty notions of herself, and needs the most vi- 
gilant eye to watch her airy motions, and re- 
prove her first developments of pride. 

Humility frequently feels it to be her duty 
to suggest some little alterations in the looks 
or language, the deportment or apparel of the 
rest of the brother-and-sisterhood, as she sup- 
poses that such matters may come properly 
within her official jurisdiction. And she studi- 
ously endeavors to set a good example herself, 
realizing the responsibility pertaining to her of- 
fice, and the absolute necessity of faithfulness 
in those who are expected to instruct and 
guide the rest. Hence her words, her disposi- 
tion and deportment, and even her style of 
dressing, are all so ordered that she might be 
safely copied by all the members of the family. 



158 HUMILITY, THE 

But Humility has always had her greatest 
difficulty with her jubilant sister Hope. As the 
common saying is, she has her hands full when 
she undertakes to manage Hope ; for Hope is 
naturally such a gay, good-natured, sprightly 
creature, so constitutionally and unchangeably 
fond of innocent hilarity and childish glee, that 
she cannot be controlled by the demure de- 
portment and sober-faced maxims that may be 
quite appropriate for some of the others. 

And sometimes when the faithful Monitress 
is really doing her best to reason with Hope, 
and trying to persuade her to lay aside her 
gleeful, childish habits, and become more wo- 
manly and sedate, as would better become her 
years, and her relations to the dignified fam- 
ily, — the good-natured, and almost mischiev- 
ous creature — instead of profiting by the long- 
faced lectures of the sober Monitress — will, 
perhaps, unintentionally, and sometimes even 
designedly, act out some of her characteristic 
sportive humor, just enough to make Humility 
smile ; and that will be the end of all serious- 
ness for that time ; and the effort to discipline 
Hope into the ordinary sobrieties of more se- 
rious minded people has to be abandoned. For 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 159 

when the mirthful creature sees a smile on the 
usually sober cheeks of the sedate Monitress, 
it is almost certain to make Hope still more 
gleeful and mischievous, and before Humility 
can get her face straight again, (as the expres- 
sion is,) Hope will contrive some how or other 
to get her to laughing outright — even when the 
tears are in her eyes — and then there is no kind 
of use for Humility to undertake to do any 
thing more with Hope for that day. She may 
indeed — as she frequently does — call upon her 
sister Patience to come and help her to sober 
Hope ; but it will not amount to much at such 
times, for Hope has her friends as well as Pa- 
tience and Humility ; and they generally take 
her part, (which Hope is very quick to per- 
ceive,) because they greatly relish the sport. 

Faith is almost always on the side of Hope 
at such times ; and, by a wink or a nod, she 
encourages her to go on ; and even Charity — ■ 
without saying much — stands looking on with 
her countenance all covered with smiles ; and 
Hope knows that it is adding to the general 
pleasure, and cannot be very wrong, else such 
good persons would not give it their counte- 
tenance and support, and, as she finds nothing 



160 HUMILITY, THE 

more agreeable to herself than to make other 
people happy, she continues to act out her nat- 
ural liveliness of disposition, without giving 
the Monitress much encouragement in her ef- 
forts to reform her habits, and make her look 
and act like any other person. 

Yet Hope would not on any account do any 
thing she thought was wrong ; for she very 
well knows that any little departure from virtu- 
ous rectitude would be a very great detriment 
to her health and enjoyment, if not fatal to her 
very existence. And, with all her childish 
mirthfulness and apparent thoughtlessness, she 
means always to keep her conscience pure, and 
be able at all times to look Charity and Justice 
full in the face, whenever they meet together. 
And she is such a good-natured, inoffensive, 
friendly, and every way pleasant creature, that 
even the most demure and sorrowful cannot 
help loving her and delighting in her society, 
whatever they may think of her more mirthful 
and childish manners. They are all sure that 
her disposition is good, and that atones for 
many faults. 

But sometimes when Humility succeeds in 
getting Hope alone with herself — especially af- 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 161 

ter Hope has had one of her most jubilant sea- 
sons, and is, by the natural reaction, rather 
more than ordinarily sobered down; — at such 
such times the Monitress does succeed, in some 
degree, in obtaining the ear of her light-hearted 
sister long enough to give her a few lessons of 
prudent advice. She then solemnly assures 
Hope that nothing would be lost by being a 
little more discreet in her jubilations, and a lit- 
tle less inclined to fly off thoughtlessly after ev- 
ery pretty bird or butterfly that may happen to 
flit across her pathway. And she assures her, 
furthermore, that it is not so much her gleeful 
humor, and her childish freaks, that make her 
such a universal favorite, but the habitual good 
temper, and the happy cheerfulness that she 
uniformly exhibits. 

And the Monitress tries to impress her with 
the importance of cultivating a less airy, and a 
more dignified, manner of carriage, assuring 
her that she would not be likely to lose any of 
the affection which sensible people feel for her, 
even if she should not step quite so much like 
dancing to the sound of the viol, but should 
put her feet firmly down upon the earth long 

enough to leave their impress upon the soil. 

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162 HUMILITY, THE 

And she advises also that Hope should cultivate 
a more refined and womanly taste in the selec- 
tion of the colors, styles, and adornments of her 
attire, giving her to understand that the opin- 
ions of the more prudent, and experienced part 
of the family are rather unfavorable to gaudy 
colors and glowing styles ; and that Hope would 
appear just as well, and even better, to the 
more sensible persons of the community, if she 
should array herself more modestly, and be 
seen more frequently in her e very-day working 
clothes, and not quite so often in her gay holi- 
day apparel. 

But, then, the Monitress does not mean to 
be unreasonable or superstitious : she is a person 
of excellent natural judgment, and large expe- 
rience, and makes many allowances for natural 
temperaments, and official stations. She wisely 
judges that Hope — being naturally such a 
sprightly, childlike person, ought to be indulged 
a little in her humorsome fancies, and constitu- 
tional light-heartedness, lest she should become 
discouraged, unhappy, and pine away, so as to 
lose all her exuberant elasticity, and not be like 
the person she was naturally designed to be. 

So, being wisely considerate, as well as kindly 



FAMILY MONITRESS. 163 

hearted, Humility permits the lively sister to 
gratify to some extent her juvenility of taste for 
robes of brighter hues, and for flaunting styles, 
supposing, as well she might, that as the juve- 
nile taste becomes more chastened with the in- 
crease of years, and wider experience of the 
vanities of life, it will most naturally change to 
suit the transformations of her age. 

And Humility has as much well-timed consid- 
eration for official stations and employments : 
she allows Liberty, if he wishes, to wear a 
plume upon his helmet, and a tassel at the end 
of his sash, because this appears to be in keep- 
ing with the established customs of his calling. 
And she does not deem it a matter worthy of 
complaint, if he should keep his head very erect 
upon his shoulders, and should even lean a little 
back of the perpendicular, and step quite im- 
posingly when he walks: for, as she is in the 
habit of saying, these are the attitudes and cus- 
toms most natural to persons in his official posi- 
tion, and seem to grow out of the necessities 
of the case. 

It will be seen at once that Humility, as the 
general Monitress, has very little time for any 
purpose excepting that which is naturally asso- 



164 HUMILITY, THE 

ciated with her office. Her duties are by no 
means either light or unimportant: she is as 
necessary to the family as any other member. 
But, then, with characteristic modesty and self- 
forgetfulness, she can hardly be persuaded that 
she is of much consequence anywhere, or to any 
person. 

But the Divine Mother esteems Humility one 
of the most lovely and invaluable of all her 
children. And she intends, when the proper 
time arrives, to show to all that the modest 
Monitress has a most exalted place in her af- 
fections. And Humility has had promised to 
her — though she does not seem to be much ex- 
cited by it — a throne and crown equal to any 
others in the value of the materials and the 
beauty of their form and finish. 

It has been thought that Humility and Pa- 
tience were most alike in their looks and dispo- 
sitions. It is observable, however, that they 
exhibit their distinguishing traits under circum- 
stances very dissimilar. Patience appears best 
in adversity; Humility appears best in pros- 
perity. Patience looks best when she suffers ; 
Humility looks best when she rejoices. Pa- 
tience is better when expected blessings are 



FAMILY MO NITR ESS. 165 

long deferred ; Humility is best when they are 
unexpectedly received. Patience best exhibits 
her disposition when unduly censured ; Humili- 
ty, when she is improperly flattered. The one 
has more to fear from her enemies; the other 
has more danger from her friends. Patience 
looks more acquiescing ; Humility appears more 
prepossessing. Patience is more adapted for 
submission ; Humility is more appropriate for 
contrition. Patience is more needed in a world 
of suffering ; Humility more in a world of sin. 
Both are indispensable in such a world as this ; 
both are amiable, gentle-spirited sisters ; each 
has her own distinguishing features ; but the 
prevailing expression of both is meekness. 



IN THEIR LABORS AND RELATIONS. 

ANALYSIS. 

Virtue Exhibited and Described — Her Dress and Adornments — 
Her Terrible Enemy — His Ambition and Efforts — His Aids and 
Encouragements — His Great Achievements — Virtue's Courage and 
Safety — Her Maxims — Her Twin Sister — The Sister's Name and 
Beauty — Similarities and Contrasts — Peculiarities of Genius and 
Disposition — Virtue distinguished from Temperance — Temperance 
distinguished from Virtue — Spiritual Differences — Mutual Favorites 
— Inseparable Intimacy — Eulogy and Invocation. 



VIRTUE. 

"What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, 

The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, 

Is Virtue's prize." 

Pope. 

"Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, 
Is the best gift of heaven ; a happiness 
That even above the smiles and frowns of fate 
Exalts great Nature's favorites; a wealth 
That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferred." 

Armstrong. 

TEMPERANCE. 

" 'T is to thy rules, Temperance 1 that we owe 
All pleasure which from health and strength can flow ; 
Vigor of body, purity of mind, 
Unclouded reason, sentiments refined, 
Unmixed, untainted joys, without remorse, 
The intemperate sinner's never failing curse." 

Mrs. Chandler. 

"And to knowledge [add] Temperance." — 2 Pet. i. 6. 



CHAPTER XL 

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IN THEIR LABORS AND RELATIONS. 

ffBEHOLD another lovely daugh- 

4M^ ter of the heavenly family : one who hath 
much of the serene intelligence of Truth; 
much of the courageous energy of the cham- 
pion ; much of the happy smilingness of Hope ; 
and, to a good degree, the clear-eyed vision of 
Faith. She hath a degree of the excellences 
of every one, and all the others claim a rela- 
tionship and a companionship with her. The 
name of this lovely daughter is Virtue. 

Virtue's graceful drapery is happy love and 
immaculate purity. Her adornment is a dia- 
dem of smiling innocence. Her sandals for 
constant using are kindness and delight for oth- 
ers. Her especial effort is to be pure herself, 
and to promote purity in all the rest. Hence 
Virtue hath her own appropriate work in bring- 
ing back the world to its Eden bliss. 
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170 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE IN 

Virtue's particular enemy is Licentiousness 
in his various forms and frequent disguises. He 
is an enemy to all, but especially to her. He 
manifests toward her unrelenting malignity, as if 
he were constantly endeavoring to annihilate her 
name and person. He would humble and de- 
stroy her dignity ; he would corrupt her inno- 
cency ; he would ruin her felicity. He is a ter- 
rible foe, without either goodness or good desire. 
He hath almost irresistible energy, and his 
promoters are neither few nor feeble. 

The customs of the degenerate age are gen- 
erally unfavorable to Virtue, and encouraging 
to Licentiousness ; and so are the world's cor- 
rupted literature and history. He is encouraged 
by a thousand songs of pleasing melody ; by a 
thousand fashions of popularity. He is strongly 
entrenched behind corrupt legislation, and exe- 
cutive example ; and in large towns, and in lit- 
tle hamlets, even, he is fortified almost impreg- 
nably. In his wariness he is prepared for every 
attack upon his strong-holds, and he stoutly re- 
fuses to surrender when he is summoned. 

Nor is Licentiousness content with the merely 
defensive ; he daringly assumes the aggressive. 
He would be the world's unrivaled despot, if 



THEIR LABORS AND RELATIONS. 171 

it were possible for him to effect his ambitious 
purposes. He would rear his polluted throne 
on a basis of blasted hopes and bleeding hearts ; 
he would universally Sodomize the vulgar ; he 
would Corinthize the refined. He smiles, and 
plots, and matures his plans by the fireside of 
unsuspecting sociality ; he lurks in the pathway 
of confiding friendship ; he invades and de- 
grades the holy sanctuary. 

Licentiousness, in his many forms and dis- 
guises, is the cunning serpent, the courageous 
lion, and, when he chooses, an angel of light. 
He has ensnared and destroyed the fairest of 
Eve's daughters, and the noblest of Adam's sons. 
He has demoralized otherwise invincible ar- 
mies ; he has captivated and led in chains the 
mightiest of martial heroes ; he has demolished 
many long established thrones, and rent asun- 
der the strongest bonds of affection. 

Such is Virtue's malignant enemy ; such the 
power that she has to contend with. But Vir- 
tue is strong in her uncorrupted innocence. 
Conscious of power that cannot be overthrown, 
if properly exerted, she hurls defiance at her 
enemy, and pursues her appropriate labors. 
She toils on, still hopeful not only of continued 



172 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE IN 

self-defense, but even of ultimate victory. She 
moves through a world of deceitfulness and sin, 
unpolluted by its multiform corruptions, unsub- 
dued by its force of perverted precepts, and 
customs of folly and sin. She has a protecting 
shield which sufficiently guards her through all 
the dangers of the day. 

Virtue has a twin sister as beautiful and use- 
ful as herself; her name is Temperance. Con- 
template her ruddy cheek, her pure, open brow, 
her full, round, wholesome form, her steady, 
elastic step, her clear, beaming eyes. She looks 
worthy of being Virtue's sister twin ; and she 
is as excellent as she looks. Virtue is not 
ashamed of her ruddy cheeked sister ; her sister 
is always proud of Virtue. 

In some respects Temperance and Virtue 
greatly resemble, so as hardly to be distin- 
guished. In other respects they are sufficiently 
dissimilar, and easily identified. In disposition 
and genius they are as unlike as in carriage and 
form; and, taken together, there is an inde- 
scribable similarity between them. Each has 
much that more remarkably characterizes the 
other; each has many qualities peculiar to 
herself. 



THEIR LABORS AND RELATIONS. 173 

Without neglecting the exterior, Virtue is 
more assiduous in cultivating and adorning the 
interior of the heart. She is more concerned 
with thoughts, affections, intentions, and desires. 
Her motto is, " Keep clean the inside of the 
cup and platter, that the outside may be clean 
also."' 55 ' She labors more at the fountain head 
of results and causes, that she may more Easily 
purify the stream. Another of her maxims — 
still more ancient than the former — is this: 
"Keep thy heart with all dilligence, for out of 
it are the issues of life."f 
• On the other hand, Temperance, without 
neglecting the interior, bestows more attention 
to the improvement and adorning of her out- 
ward person. She admires a symmetrical, elas- 
tic, glowing, beautiful form, whose breath is 
fragrant with uninjured healthfulness, and whose 
complexion is sweetly transparent, and beauti- 
fully roseate, from the limpid fountains and the 
morning dews. 

If Virtue attends more to her thoughts, Tem- 
perance is more careful of her words. If Vir- 
tue is more attentive to her affections, that they 
may be originally and intrinsically pure, in re- 

* Matt, xxiii, 25. f Pro v. iv, 23. 



174 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE IN 

spect to themselves, Temperance is more solicit- 
ous about the objects of her affections, their 
propriety, deportment, degree, and tendency. 
Virtue pays more attention to what she intends ; 
Temperance is more careful about what she does. 
One is more meditative ; the other, more opera- 
tive. One is better to plan ; the other, to exe- 
cute* One begins better than the other; the 
other finishes better than the former. Virtue 
is more intellectual ; Temperance is more emo- 
tional. One has more of the human without, 
and more of the heavenly within ; the other has 
more of earth within, and more of heaven with- 
out. But both are angels incarnate, and when 
they exhibit their final transformation, both will 
appear equally divine. 

Virtue has all the excellences and beauti- 
fulness of Temperance spiritualized, concen- 
trated, and enshrined in the heart ; Temperance 
has all the nobleness and all the purity of Vir- 
tue materialized, unfolded, and displayed openly. 
Virtue is Temperance in the bud; Temper- 
ance is Virtue in full blossom. 

These two sisters, like Mercy and Charity, 
or Faith and Hope, are each other's especial fa- 
vorites, and bosom friends. They cannot en- 



THEIR LABORS AND RELATIONS. 175 

dure to be far separated; and they delight to 
go about hand in hand, visiting the same socie- 
ties, intimate with the same families, opposed by 
the same enemies. When they are laboring 
they aid one another ; when they journey they 
travel together; and when they repose it is side 
by side. 

Lovely and excellent couple ! equaled only 
by the fairest and best of the Divine Family ! 
Goodly offsprings of a goodly parentage ! May 
your purity of intention and propriety of deed, 
your heart's adorning and your outward beau- 
ty, be the grace and purity of all our goodness, 
our social innocence and our public joy ! 
dwell by our hearthstones, feast at our tables, 
lead all our pursuits of pleasure, regulate our 
industry, cement our friendship, smooth our 
death beds, attend us evermore ! 



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PART SECOND 



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ANALYSIS. 

Effort of Former Part — Present Intention — Contrast and Similari- 
ties — Moral Identity Preserved — Illustrations — Christian Identity — 
Divine Germs in Immortal Soil — Vitality Preserved through many 
Transformations — Encouraging Reflection — Heaven in its First Ru- 
diments — Scripture doctrine — Planting and Harvesting — Imper- 
ishable Riches — Spiritual Buds and Blossoms — Immortality in the 
Germ — Preservation of Personalities — Universal Laws — Scripture 
Teachings. 



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Having thus far exhibited the Divine Family in their 
respective persons, offices and labors ; having contempla- 
ted the peculiar traits and excellences of each, as well as 
the associated and blended beauties of all; we now with 
telegraphic leap through time and space, pass over the 
period intervening between the present toil and conflict 
and the final triumph and reward, that we may contem- 
plate the several members of the family in their individual 
and associated glory. 

And those whom we have considered in pleasing con- 
trast, and in as pleasing similarities, may now be dis- 
played in their final transformations and appropriate re- 
wards, individually distinguished, yet happily combined. 
In morals, as in persons, individual identities are inherent 
and indestructible. Alterations of development, changes 
of relationship, and appropriate progression are going on 
unceasingly, without annihilation of personal identity, or 
the loss of any quality that originates from God. 

Truth is Truth everywhere, in all positions in earth and 
heaven, in all relations with God and men. And Justice 
retains his own characteristics when associated with be- 
ings above, as much as when dealing with persons below. 
All that is cardinal to Christian character forms a part of 



182 THE PROEM. 

the Christian's identity, and in some suitable measure, in 
some appropriate form, variously related, and differently 
named, it will not only exist, but opportunely act, while 
the Christian retains his essential being. 

The living germs of divine origination that grace im- 
plants in the human soul, are not only susceptible of ever- 
lasting vitality and growth, but the soil in which they 
germinate and become rooted is capable of sustaining 
them with increasing vigor and beauty through endless 
years. There is no necessity, then, that these divine exot- 
ics of the Heavenly Father's planting should ever be 
plucked up ; there is no reason why such germs of vitality 
should ever die, while they remain rooted in such a soil ; 
and there is no probability of their ceasing to nourish, on 
account of being returned and transplanted in their native 
clime. Must they not, then, forever nourish ? This must 
be encouraging to those who enjoy the happy conscious- 
ness of having implanted within their spiritual nature 
those divinely originated principles that are designed in 
this world to germinate and become impersonated in con- 
nection with rational immortals, as an essential part of 
their voluntary character; for, by a careful cultivation of 
these primary elements of immortal bliss, we may not only 
through grace insure' such felicity for ourselves, as the 
natural and proper fruit of holy living, but even so incor- 
porate and identify these heavenly elements with our per- 
sonal character, as to make it a virtue, as well as a blessing, 
to begin our blissful immortality by cherishing the rudi- 
ments of it in this probationary state. 

" Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap : he 
that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption ; 



THE PROEM. 183 

but he that soweth to the spirit, shall of the spirit reap life 
everlasting."* We should not be " deceived " in so im- 
portant a matter : it is an unchangeable law of the uni- 
verse: the Infinite Being has adopted this principle to 
guide him in securing results to their causes ; and he can- 
not be " mocked " so as to deviate from this immutable 
order of administering rewards. 

To plant and cultivate the living seeds of heavenly hap- 
piness here, is, in effect, providing for an abundant har- 
vest hereafter. To gather up and preserve the golden 
grains of spiritual wealth in this world, is the sure way of 
laying up in store an abundance of imperishable riches in 
the world to come. For our Savior has distinctly taught 
us that we may " lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven." 
And he counsels us to buy of him " gold tried in the 
fire," that we may be rich. It is the hand of the diligent, 
too, that maketh rich, both in respect of this world's 
wealth, and also of the wealth that perisheth not with the 
using. 

There is every encouragement, therefore, to seek to be- 
come such in this world as we hope to be in the world to 
come. The common Christian Virtues winch are devel- 
oped here are the promising buds of immortal blessedness 
that are destined to unfold and show their full blossoms 
in the fairer clime above. To neglect and destroy Chris- 
tian character, then, is to destroy eternal felicity in the 
bud ; and this is just as fatal to future bliss, as it would 
be to lose our place in heaven after obtaining it, or to be 
deprived of entering heaven by the commission of some 

GaL vi. 1, 8. 



184 THE PROEM. 

fatal crime. To destroy the vital germ in the seed that is 
sown, just as effectually destroys the harvest as to burn it 
in the sheaf. 

Faith, Hope, Charity, Justice, Truth, and all the rest 
of the Divine Family of virtues, will exist impersoned 
hereafter, just as they have been impersonated here. 
Those who cherish and mature the heavenly graces most 
assiduously and most successfully in this life of probation, 
will be likely to begin their future existence with the 
greatest advantages, and to continue forever in advance 
of those who were in this world less self-denying, and less 
diligent in improving their spiritual gifts than they. 

The same unerring and benevolent wisdom that en- 
courages the common virtues of social beings, by connect- 
ing with their exercise appropriate rewards ; the same in- 
finite Goodness that thus promotes common virtue, and 
discourages every vice ; this same most merciful Being — 
thus regardful of the less important — will not be so unmind- 
ful of that which is still more necessary and divine, as to 
leave the practice of the Christian virtues without en- 
couragements equal to the necessities of the case. 

The scriptures of truth are sufficiently distinct in their 
teachings in respect to these things. Christian Virtue has 
the promise of the life that now is, and of that also which is 
to come ; but the coming life is especially the time of be- 
stowing the promised reward. 



ANALYSIS. 

A Unique Family Group — Differing from Former Displays — The 
Central Personage — Divine Mother Portrayed — Family Resemblan- 
ces — Illustrations from the Sun — The Rainbow — A Brilliant Pic- 
ture — Position of Charity and Mercy — Personal Appearances — Po- 
sition and Descriptions of Faith and Hope — Industry and Zeal Sta- 
tioned and Portrayed — Patience and Humility Described — Position 
and Attitude of Contemplation — Impulse and her Portrait — Justice 
Stationed — His Attitude and Aspect — Position of Virtue and Tem- 
perance—Emblematical Scenery — Truth's Position and Personal 
Appearance — Liberty's Station and Personal Appearance — Eulogis- 
tic Apostrophe to the Family Group. 



RELIGION. 

"True Religion 
Is always mild, propitious, and humble, 
Plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood ; 
Nor bears destruction on her chariot wheels ; 
But stoops to polish, succor, and redress, 
And builds her grandeur on the public good." 

Miller. 

" Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture dignity and love." 

Milton. 

"The light of love, the purity of grace, 
The mind, the music breathing from her face." 

Byron. 

1 Of whom the whole Family in heaven and earth is named." 

JL'ph. iii. 15. 

'Such a Mother! such Sons and Daughters 1 " 

Anonymous. 




CHAPTER I. 

Cjjt Jite Jfamilg tti a (group* 

CONTEMPLATING the Di- 

vine Family in their glorified condition, 
in respect of their new relations and altered 
appearances, we may first behold them exhib- 
ited in a single family group, as we have for- 
merly considered them in the various limited 
associations among themselves. 

Conspicuous, as the central personage, like 
the sun in the solar world, is Religion herself, 
the Divine Mother of all the rest. In her 
own most admirable person she displays all of 
beauty, and all of majesty, all sweetness of ex- 
pression, all loveliness of attitude, all propriety 
of costume. 

The various excellences of all the offspring 
are exhibited in all their original freshness and 
perfection in the person of the Mother. Every 
lineament, and every expression, traceable in 
their countenances, or shadowed forth, are dis- 



188 THE DIVINE FAMILY 

played in her own person, surprisingly yet 
beautifully combined, as the primary tints and 
blended hues of all things beautiful in earth are 
displayed in the brilliant rainbow. 

The Divine Mother, serene with immaculate 
purity, glowing with habitual bliss, presides 
with queenly dignity in the midst of the group. 
Her own transmitted loveliness and virtues are 
displayed with multiform advantages in the sev- 
eral persons of the group, whose individualities 
are not more evident than the family resem- 
blances that prove their common source : each 
a jewel of the loveliest hues, in itself beautiful 
and rare ; the whole, a glorious garniture of 
brilliancies combined to set forth and embellish 
the richer central gem. 

On the Mother's right hand is blooming Char- 
ity, with her favorite Mercy fondly leaning up- 
on her shoulder, with sisterly affection and de- 
lightful trust : the one radiant with complacen- 
cy and with a beaming eye ; the other melting 
with affection, and with a glistening tear. Most 
beautiful one when in smiles she appears ; most 
lovely the other when veiled with tears. 

On the other hand, nearest to the throne 
stands the magician Faith, calmly surveying the 



IN A GROUP. 189 

surrounding scenery, satisfied with present be- 
ing, and yet anticipating better. By her side, 
almost on tip-toe, stands smiling, happy Hope, 
overlooking the scenery near at hand, and ga- 
zing with eagerness on the distant mountain 
tops, which the rising sun is richly gilding with 
his summer beams. For Hope is very far sight- 
ed, and loves the prospect of the distant hills. 

Next to these are the brothers Industry and 
Zeal ; the latter half a step in advance of the 
other. Zeal has a restless eye, and an earnest 
countenance ; and his natural attitude unmista- 
kably indicates the constitutional traits of his ac- 
tive soul. His feet hardly touch the ground. His 
hands appear to be impatient for something to 
do. He looks half ready to speak, half ready 
to run, as if he regretted the moments devoted 
to rest. 

Industry, with a quiet air, stands much at 
ease, looking with attentive, submissive eye, as 
though waiting the word to go, or expecting 
the order to stand, with a countenance fitting 
for either, and an attitude proper for both. 

Beyond Charity and Mercy, on the right, 
stand Patience and Humility, the sister twins, 
each with an arm around the other's waist. 



190 



THE DIVINE FAMILY 



Humility, with an innocent, modest face, ar- 
rayed in robes of the simplest, neatest kind ; 
Patience, with a cheek a little sad, but sweetly 
serene ; both beautiful in their own respective 
ways, but each one better both in heart and 
look from the influence and presence of the 
other. 

At Humility's right hand appears the manly, 
well proportioned form of Contemplation, with 
his thoughtful countenance and dignified mien. 
Less attentive to the external than the others, 
he seems wholly occupied with what is passing 
within. Just now he turns his attention to 
something transpiring around him, that he may 
gather some new food for thought, and rumi- 
nate upon it at his leisure. He stands quite at 
ease ; as if, indeed, he did not think of his own 
ease, but naturally fell into the attitude most 
meet for meditation, and mechanically main- 
tained it by retaining the mental posture of ab- 
stracted thought that most appropriately as- 
sumed the outward attitude. 

At ardent Zeal's left hand stands sprightly 
Impulse, with her light, active form,, and ani- 
mated face. Just now at rest, though still re- 
taining traces of some recent exercise, where the 



IN A GROUP. 191 

whole soul was thoroughly aroused, she seems 
in readiness to renew her efforts in the first en- 
terprise of doing good that may appeal to her 
most sentient heart. Acting usually less from 
her own native promptings, than from the in- 
fluence of things without, she seems in attitude 
and look to wait for some appropriate motion 
to be given, that she might rouse herself to 
new exertions for the general weal. She looks 
more active than strong, more sprightly than 
wise ; and yet there is a charm about her pres- 
ence that makes her most agreeable to look up- 
on, and gives an interest to all she does. 

Justice stands next to Contemplation on the 
right, and shows severity of dignity, and equa- 
nimity of spirit, unsurpassed by any of the rest. 
Weighing with carefulness and strictest equity 
the words and works of others, he has perma- 
nently acquired such a look of candor and intel- 
ligence as makes his countenance the vivid in- 
dex of his own pure, candid heart. He waits 
in the position of receiving truth, and in the at- 
titude of speaking, too; and looks as readily 
prepared to speak a word to approbate the 
right, as to receive the unpleasant evidence of 
evil wrought. And his features bear the im- 



192 THE DIVINE FAMILY 

press of a soul inured to doing and promoting 
good, abhorring and discouraging ill in word, 
or deed, and thought. 

Beyond Impulse, on the left, are Virtue and 
Temperance, with their hands affectionately 
clasped together, indicative of similar pursuits 
and kindred hearts. By Virtue's side appears 
a crystal vase, with roses and lilies in luxuriant 
bloom, emblems of purity and loveliness com- 
bined. 

By the side of Temperance, a copious foun- 
tain gushing forth like liquid crystal, and flow- 
ing off through flowery gardens and fruitful 
fields, where lovely cottages adorn the scene. 
Where rosy childhood is playing in beauty; 
where Age reposes with tranquil affection; 
where Youth rejoices with innocent glee ; where 
Labor succeeds with easy toil. 

Behind the throne, a little to the right, look- 
ing over Charity's shoulder, is majestic Truth, 
with his volumes of wisdom, and piercing eye. 
He, too, is calm and meditative, like Justice 
and Contemplation; more complacent in his 
looks than Justice ; more practical than Con- 
templation. He looks as if he had more know- 
ledge than he knows how to apply, and more 



IN A GROUP. 193 

ability than he finds occasion to exercise. In 
form and attitude a prince confessed, he wins 
the admiration of the rest. 

Also, in the rear of the throne, and a little to 
the left, overlooking Faith's right shoulder, 
appears tall, broad-chested Liberty, with his 
lion heart and gleaming panoply. Strong cour- 
age is depicted in his expressive countenance, 
and he looks the perfect embodiment of energy, 
might, and valor. A veteran used to war, yet 
loving peace, he seems as ready to fight when 
duty commands, as to repose when safety bids. 
He appears divine in the beauty of his noble 
form, lovely in the majesty of his manly strength. 



Sublime society of impersonated virtues! 
Unequaled group of heavenly excellences ! Pic- 
ture of realities more beautiful than Fancy's ! 
May the living imagery be divinely daguerreo- 
typed in every spirit and garnished and exhibi- 
ted in a proper frame of daily practice ! 

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toilr mxti f itortj, 

AND THEIR NEW OFFICES AND HONORS. 

ANALYSIS. 

Truth before the Throne — Report of his Doings — Influence over 
the Divine Family — Faith a Pupil of Truth — Primary and Classical 
Studies — General Acknowledgments — A Long Honorary Title Con- 
ferred — An Instance of Sincerity in declining a Title — Brilliant 
Coronet — Handsome Badge — Celestial Station — Liberty before the 
Throne — Martial Aspect — Explanation — A Triumph Decreed — The 
Procession Described — Thrilling Music — The General Chorus — Ob- 
ligation — Prince Immanuel — Liberty Promoted — Distinguishing 
Badge — Obtains the Honor of Knighthood — The Celestial Order— 
The New Military Title. 



TRUTH. 

""What mark does Truth, what bright distinction bear? 
How do we know that what we know is True? 
How shall we falsehood fly, and Truth pursue ? " 

Pom/ret. 

" Truth is Truth to the end of reckoning." — Shakspeare. ' 

"Truth shall make you free." — John viii. 23. 



LIBERTY. 

* 
"Liberty, like day, 
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from heaven, 
Fire's all the faculties with glorious joy." 

Cowper. 

"Truth shall restore the light by Nature given, 
And, like Prometheus, bring the fire of heaven ; 
Prone to the dust Oppression shall be hurled — 
His name — his nature — wither'd from the world." 

Campbell* 



CHAPTER II. 

% rtttjf into f ifm% 

AND THEIR NEW OFFICES AND HONORS. 

THE first member of the Di- 
vine Family who is called to hear com- 
mendation and receive reward, is Truth. He 
comes before the throne and reads from his own 
unerring and undisputed records the report of 
his achievements. Ignorance has been care- 
fully instructed, Superstition illuminated, Hy- 
pocrisy exposed and banished, Error and Per- 
version removed or corrected; Heathen tem- 
ples have trembled on their old foundations as 
he approached, and have tottered and fallen at 
the quake of his foosteps as he passed by. Re- 
ligions of delusion and creeds of cruelty have 
vanished before him, and the oracles of Inspi- 
ration have become the light for many be- 
nighted nations. 

And Truth has faithfully taught the divine 



198 TRUTH AND LIBERTY, AND THEIR 

brother and sisterhood a thousand various les- 
sons of profit and pleasure. He has left no mo- 
ment unimproved, no method unemployed, that 
might be used or occupied in increasing the 
general stock of knowledge, and maturing the 
imperfect mind. 

Faith has always gone as a pupil to Truth to 
learn not only the A B C's of divine literature, 
but all the higher branches of the spiritual clas- 
sics, that she might be able to study and to 
comprehend the experimental poetry and the 
heroic deeds of ancient worthies, whose histo- 
ries are related in the language spoken in th 
days of yore. She finds innumerable thought 
and shades of thought distinctly intimated o 
delicately taught in the fine original patriarcha 
times, which cannot easily be rendered in th( 
artificial dialects of these degenerate days 
And Faith has thus been led along through th( 
first rudiments of heavenly science until she 
passes examination well in all her primary stu- 
dies, and is quite prepared to graduate to the 
higher classes of the school above. But this is 
not surprising, when we consider what a teacher 
Truth is reputed to be, and what a pupil he is 
permitted to teach. 



NEW OFFICES AND HONORS. 199 

All the members of the Divine Family ac- 
knowledge gratefully their obligations to their 
professional brother, and would be exceedingly 
pleased to see him exalted to some noble posi- 
tion in the higher departments of heavenly 
honors and blessedness. Charity suggests that 
he should be honored with the title of D. D. K., 
P. H. B. — -Doctor of Divine Knowledge, Pro- 
moter of Human Bliss. 

The honorary degrees are voted by acclama- 
tion ; but Truth respectfully declines to receive 
the dignified title, until he is — as we may say, 
compelled to consent ; and the universe has at 
least one instance of an honorary title being 
sincerely declined. 

Truth is also honored with a coronet of Zion 
diamonds, set in Nazarene pearls, and worn as 
his every day adornment. His badge is the 
morning star, set in a breastplate of Calvary am- 
ethyst, and constantly worn over his heart. 
His station shall be at the right hand of the 
throne, when he is on professional duty ; and 
his office shall be the scribe to record, and the 
herald to announce, the Divine decrees. 

Next Liberty is called ; and he approaches, 
bearing in his hand a living branch of Canaan 



200 TRUTH AND LIBERTY, AND THEIR 

Palm, with a blooming wreath of Gethsemane 
Olive encircling his brow. He advances with 
a measured, stately tread, and carries himself 
with natural militant dignity. With almost 
haughtiness of port, (resulting less, however, 
from his heart's feelings, than from his ordinary 
official attitudes, and appropriate martial bear- 
ing,) he waits with most respectful and unaf- 
fected deference, that he may hear the com- 
mendations and the commands of his superior. 

It is finally decreed that the Champion shall 
have a magnificent triumph. And, that noth- 
ing appropriate be withheld, he is permitted — 
after the ancient usage — to ride in state, and 
display the trophies of successful war. En- 
throned in his triumphal chariot, disrobed, dis- 
torted Oppression chained to his axle, he passes 
by amid the flourish of ten thousand trumpets 
proclaiming his glorious deeds, and the flutter- 
ing of myriads of gleaming banners flung out 
upon the free air. 

Following in the triumphal procession are 
the happy millions who have been emancipated 
and defended by his vigilance and victorious 
arms, making melody with shivered manacles 
and broken chains, not discordant now, but 



NEW OFFICES AND HONORS. 201 

transformed into cymbals and tambours melodi- 
ous as Gabriel's harp. And in the frequent 
choruses, when all the living minstrelsy unite, 
each rehearsing what each one knows of vic- 
tory achieved and freedom gained ; — and each 
remembering that Liberty has not obtained his 
victories by his own valor merely, but through 
the courage, sacrifice and death of the great 
Prince Immanuel, under whose supreme com- 
mand victorious Liberty is himself content to 
be a standard bearer, or a corporal, or anything 
most pleasing to his Chief ; — the happy millions, 
led by Liberty, ascribe their conquest and re- 
demption to the martyr blood so freely poured 
out by the dying Prince who met, endured, and 
vanquished Death. 

And Liberty — as the most brave and cham- 
pion like of all the brotherhood — whose native 
inclination leads to war, when war is needful 
for the common weal ; — whose wisdom and de- 
light are martial in their kind ; — Liberty, who 
has always led the spiritual militant host, the 
first to face the foe, the last to flee, shall be pro- 
moted now to such a rank as native bravery 
and veteran skill deserve. 

Liberty is promoted to the rank of Prince 
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202 TRUTH AND LIBERTY. 

Commander, under Immanuel, of all the legions 
in the armies above. His badge, in times of 
peace, shall be a ruby crucifix, surmounted by 
a living eagle with outspread wings. And he 
shall also be knighted in the presence of all the 
triumphing host, and wear upon his breast the 
crimson scarf and the diamond star of the Ce- 
lestial Order, and evermore be called, Sir Lib- 
erty, Prince Commander of the Royal Guards. 



AND THEIR QUEENLY OFFICES. 

ANALYSIS. 

Faith's Personal Appearance — Evidence in her Favor — General 
Obligation to Faith — Amiable Emulation — Full Investigation De- 
ferred — Present Design — New Name — New Association — Distin- 
guishing Badge — Exalted Privilege — Crowned a Queen — Humble 
Request — Hope Portrayed — Her Expectation — Hope Remains Her- 
self Forever — Her Happiness — New Honor Conferred — A Welcome 
Guest — Change of Apparel — Magnificent Robe — Splendid Orna- 
ments — Wonderful Zone — Pleasant Sandals — Brilliant Diadems — 
Distinguishing Badge — Royal Title. 



FAITH. 

" The things unknown to feeble sense, 
Unseen by Season's glimmering ray, 

With strong commanding evidence^ 
Their heavenly origin display." 



Wesley. 



"Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence 
of things not seen." — Heb. xi. 1. 

HOPE. 

"Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, 

Adorns and cheers the way ; 
And still, as darker grows the night, 

Emits a brighter ray." 

Goldsmith. 

"Rejoicing in Hope." — Rom. xii. 12. 

" Saved by Hope." — Rom viii. 24. 




CHAPTER III. 

Jmtjf atitr fop, 

AND THEIR QUEENLY OFFICES. 

'EXT Faith, with deliberate 

step, advances to the throne, already 
perceiving the honors which are intended for 
her, and smiling with pleasing expectation and 
desire. All are ready to speak in praise of 
Faith: all are living evidences of her excel- 
lence and efficiency. She has more or less aid- 
ed all in the accomplishment of their respect- 
ive missions, and it was never more clearly dis- 
covered than now. 

Truth has a volume of reports of Faith's as- 
tonishing achievements ; and there is not one 
of the Divine Family but feels the stirring elo- 
quence of speechless gratitude for the personal 
excellence and the good success which Faith 
has secured to them. Virtue, Charity, Hope, 
and all the sisterhood are emulous to speak and 
do for Faith whatever may be done, that she 



206 FAITH AND HOPE, 

may be commended with highest praise, and 
gloriously rewarded for the bliss she has through 
grace secured for them. 

But all agree that it is needless now to speak 
in detail of the works of Faith, or to express the 
gratitude that endless years cannot rehearse. 
And all by mutual agreement think it best to 
make these themes the topics of grave thought 
and frequent conversation in the social gather- 
ings of the family above. The present concern 
is to devise for Faith the highest happiness that 
may be conferred, and the noblest honors that 
may be deemed appropriate for her. 

As Faith has never deceived those who have 
confided in her ; as she has always duly re- 
deemed her promises, and proved her most im- 
probable predictions true, she shall now be 
honored with a nobler title, and be promoted 
to a higher sphere. Her new name shall be 
Knowledge, as a suitable title for one so richly 
versed in spiritual wisdom. And she shall be, 
at her own pleasure, associated with Truth in 
all things appropriate for her condition and 
genius, that Truth and Knowledge may ever- 
more unite with mutual advantage, and for the 
good of all. 



AND THEIR QUEENLY OFFICES. 207 

Faith's distinguishing badge shall be the re- 
covered Urira and Thummim, which shall never 
more be lost or dimmed. She shall be privi- 
leged with entering the secret councils of the 
upper Court, and searching the untranslated 
archives of Infinite Love. She now kneels be- 
fore the throne, and is crowned Queen of Spir- 
itual Knowledge. And her provinces are to be 
perpetually increasing in number, variety, and 
extent. 

Faith expresses her entire satisfaction, and 
only asks that her sister Hope may be associated 
with her in her new position, as they have been 
connected in all their doings in the former state. 
And every one is pleased with the request, as 
being most agreeable to Faith, and most in har- 
mony with public good. 

And now comes smiling, cheerful Hope, trip- 
ping along with child-like buoyancy, with laugh- 
ing eyes ; her head a little thrown back, a little 
inclined toward her shoulder ; her lips half 
parted, as if just ready to speak ; and with all her 
native exuberance of spirit depicted in her face. 
And there she stands by the side of Faith, the 
lively and the lovely embodiment of innocence 
and joy. 



208 FAITH AND HOPE, 

Hope feels no concern about the final dispo- 
sition of her case ; for, with less dependence on 
herself, than confidence in others, she has all 
along been looking to receive the very best that 
might be graciously awarded ; and she smiles 
with happy satisfaction at the pleasing prospect 
that greets her beaming vision, as the future 
comes before her with all its rainbow promises 
and Auroras of delight. And she has within 
herself a vivid panorama of all the coming glo- 
ries, so that with looking inwardly she sees as 
much to cheer her, as looking also outwardly 
she finds to make her glad. 

The decision in the case of Hope is imme- 
diate, and gives happiness to all. Hope shall 
remain Hope forever. No one wishes a change 
in either her nature or name. With Hope, as 
she now appears, with Hope, as she has ever 
been, all the Divine Family are perfectly satis- 
fied ; but no one is better pleased with Hope 
than she is with herself. She has always been 
on good terms with herself; has led a very hap- 
py life, and has herself been very greatly blessed 
in blessing others. 

The only creature in the world, perhaps, that 
never had an enemy, or that never shed a tear, 



AND THEIR QUEENLY OFFICES. 209 

let Hope continue as she has ever been, and all 
who know her will be gratified, for no one will 
ever cease to delight in Hope ; and there is no 
one who does not wish her well. 

The freedom of the holy Metropolis is to be 
conferred on Hope ; and she shall be entitled 
to range at pleasure through every department 
of Paradise, without formality or restraint ; and 
she is invited to visit, as a privileged member, 
all the select associations in bliss ; and there is 
no place where she will not be a welcome and 
beloved guest, to come as often as she pleases, 
and remain as long as she can ; and if she even 
become a permanent member of any family 
above, it will be regarded by such as an espe- 
cial favor not to be estimated by ordinary things. 

Hope's earthly raiment, however, which has 
been somewhat spotted with occasional disap- 
pointments, and a little dimmed by earthly un- 
certainties, will now be laid aside, and she shall 
be arrayed with robes unsullied and of heavenly 
texture, such as will be becoming her new po- 
sition and the heavenly fashions. And, as to 
ornaments, she may select, and gratify her own 
peculiar taste, from all the cabinets and ward- 
robes in the skies. 

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210 FAITH AND HOPE 

Hope has always been a little inclined to be 
airy and luxurious in her dress, delighting in 
brilliant hues and showy styles, and her taste 
shall be gratified now both in respect to the 
fabric, figure, and fashion of her immortal 
drapery. Her robe is to be woven of prismatic 
sunbeams, with diamond spangles of blissful 
certainty. Her zone shall be a rainbow, tas- 
seled and fringed with radiations of ever-new 
delights, to bind her imperial robe to her beau- 
tiful form. Her sandals shall be divine assur- 
ance, to give pleasure and steadiness to her 
steps. Her diadem is to be a wreath of the 
Aurora Borealis, with many tinted corruscations 
of vivid ecstacy streaming forth unceasingly, as 
a living halo of beautiful joy. 

Hope's distinguishing badge shall be an an- 
chor of gold, with flukes of diamonds, to be 
kept in memory of the past; and henceforth 
she shall be entitled The Princess Hope. 



ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 

ANALYSIS. 

Silence in Heaven — Regard for Charity — Request in her Behalf — 
The Celestial Empire — Frigid and Tropical Zones — Celestial Geog- 
raphy uot taught in the Primary Classes — Temperature and Sea- 
sons — Beautiful Prairies — Extent — Unoccupied Lands — New States 
for Admission — Charity Appointed the Empress — The Throne — ■ 
Regalia — Private Name — Imperial Title — Charity's Request for 
Mercy — A Truth Explained — Mercy's Disinterestedness — Her Opin- 
ion of Herself — Natural Apprehension — Mercy's Tenderness — Her 
Transformation — New Name — New Apparel — A Splendid Veil — 
Curious Ornaments — Music for Mourning — Mercy's Regalia — Her 
Imperial Title. 



CHARITY. 

"The drying up a single tear has more 
Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore." 

Byron. 

"It is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link, the silken tie, 
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 
In body and in soul can bind." 

Scott. 

MERCY. 

'0 think ! think upward on the thrones above; 
Disdain not Mercy, since they Mercy love; 
If Mercy were not mingled with their power, 
This wretched world could not subsist an hour." 

Davenant. 

"Be ye therefore Merciful, as your Father also is Merciful. 

Luke vi. 3 

" Rich in Mercy."— Eph. ii. 4. 




CHAPTER IY. 

ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 

HEN" Chaeity is called to 

her commendation and obtain 
reward, the whole Divine Family seem unusually 
thoughtful with kind solicitude: " There is si- 
lence in heaven for the space of half an hour." All 
appear to be studious to devise or suggest the 
highest happiness and the noblest reward. For 
Charity there seems to be felt the deepest af- 
fection, blended with delightful reverence. 

But now, as from a single heart, and as with 
a single tongue, all the blessed exclaim, Let 
Charity be Empress of Joy I (Now Joy is a 
very extensive and a very beautiful empire in 
the blessed regions. Without intimating that 
there are frigid zones in the upper world, yet it 
will be proper to say, that the empire of Joy 
embraces not only the tropical regions, where 
the sun is vertical, but extends also so far to the 



214 CHARITY AND MERCY, 

north and the south that both poles are included, 
and the rays of the sun fall obliquely upon the 
surface.* 

The pupils in the primary classes in this 
world have not yet advanced far enough to 
comprehend the phenomena of celestial astrono- 
my and spiritual geography, and must be con- 
tent to continue a while in the easy lessons 
which are more appropriate for the junior de- 
partment of the heavenly institution ; else it 
might be expedient to give a few illustrative 
diagrams, and a few general statements of the 
more prominent characteristics of the celestial 
sciences. Let it suffice to say, that the frigid 
zones (so called) are by no means wintry, and 
the tropical regions are by no means scorching, 
though the sun is felt to be pretty warm on the 
meridian at the equator, and it is sufficiently 
cool at the poles to be comfortable. All tem- 
peratures are provided for all temperaments, 
and all seasons are provided for all occasions. 

The Empire of Joy has a thousand blooming 
prairies, where the floral beauties are perennial, 
and where the springs and rivulets flow with- 
out diminishing through all seasons of the year. 

* All may not be able to endure the direct rays of Divine glory. 



ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 215 

There are gentle slopes and lovely valleys, beau- 
tiful glades and blooming forests ; and through 
the very midst flowathe river of life that gushes 
up from beneath the eternal throne. The for- 
ests bear not only flowers but fruit ; and fra- 
grance, and beauty, and sweetness are furnished 
by these celestial woodlands. 

The prairies extend — no one knows how far 
— but they spread out like the shoreless ocean, 
so that the sun seems to rise and set within their 
boundaries. The whole region has not yet 
been fully surveyed, and there is much land to 
be possessed ; and new territories are being or- 
ganized, passing into regular states, and apply- 
ing for admission into the union. How exten- 
sive the great empire will yet become cannot 
now be determined, but crowds of emigrants 
from these foreign shores are perpetually passing 
over into these blissful provinces that compose 
the empire. This, then, in brief, is the charac- 
ter of the empire of Joy.)* 

"Let Charity be Empress of Joy." It is so 
decreed. Her throne shall be made of Jerusa- 
lem pearls, each inhabitant of heaven contribut- 
ing. Her diadem shall be a living chaplet of 

* There will be great variety in heavenly happiness. 



216 CHARITY AND MERCY, 

Eden flowers, renewed every day from the tree 
of life in the midst of the garden, that pnts forth 
new varieties of blossoms* every month in the 
year, and every day in the week. Her distin- 
guishing badge is a crystal heart, enclosing the 
evening star, set in Zion amethyst, worn with 
an azure scarf. The new name by which Chari- 
ty shall henceforth be known, in her familiar 
sisterly intercourse with the rest of the family, 
is Love. When she presides in her imperial ca- 
pacity she will be addressed by the court title 
of, Her Serene Highness, Love, Empress of 
Joy. 

The noble Empress, with characteristic dispo- 
sition, expresses both with smiles and words 
her entire satisfaction and unfeigned delight 
and gratitude, but prefers a single request : 
" Let my young sister Mercy share the throne 
with me" Amen! is instantly responded by 
all the redeemed ; and the decree is announced 
with pleasure. 

(Now, if the truth must be more fully re- 
vealed, the inhabitants of the blessed regions, 
remembering " the rock from which they were 
hewn, and the hole of the pit from whence they 
were digged," and keeping always distinctly 



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ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 217 

before their minds how much they are indebted 
to Mercy for previous blessings and present 
glory, have conceived a very great affection for 
the tender-hearted sister; and nothing could 
possibly be more universally pleasing to all the 
happy redeemed than this characteristic request 
of Charity.) 

But Mercy, taken by inexpressible surprise, 
instinctively shrinks from the unanticipated and 
overwhelming honor. She would be perfectly 
satisfied to live in the humblest tabernacle with 
the shepherds by the brooks ; or to be em- 
ployed in any appropriate avocation of the use- 
ful arts ; or to occupy any of the lower offices 
in the celestial empire ; and would prefer, as 
most befitting her peculiar temperament and 
adaptations, a lower to a higher position in the 
world of bliss. She has never felt an aspiration 
for high distinctions ; has never coveted power 
or praise, or sought for anything in her own 
behalf; for all her solicitudes have uniformly 
been directed for the welfare of others. 

And Mercy deems herself better adapted to 
a world of sin and suffering, than to a state of 
purity and unalloyed delight, where there can 
never be any sorrow to be soothed, want to be 



218 CHARITY AND MERCY, 

relieved, sin to be forgiven, or death to be be- 
wailed. She has been so habitually accustomed 
to weep and sigh in sympathy with the dis- 
tressed, that she might forget herself from the 
view or thought of some real or imagined woe, 
and unintentionally, and perhaps of necessity, 
transgress the established usages of heaven, 
which utterly prohibit the earthly practice of 
breathing sighs, or shedding tears. 

Mercy cannot imagine how she could live in 
entire conformity with rules and customs so en- 
tirely new ; or how she could profitably spend 
the long, long years of uninterrupted felicity, 
entirely destitute of such employment as she 
has all her life been most familiar with. She 
could never think of being happy herself, if she 
knew that any one else was wretched ; and even 
the thought that some one might be suffering 
somewhere, though she did not know it was so, 
has usually been enough to fill her eyes with 
tears. 

And, as for being enthroned with imperial 
Love, and reigning jointly with her august Ma- 
jesty over such a realm, it implies too much of 
honor to be endured by one so wholly unaccus- 
tomed as herself to courts and palaces, and 



ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 219 

scepters and thrones. She might, in such a 
strange position, conduct herself so awkwardly 
as to excite a smile from those more courtly 
bred, and more familiar with imperial things. 

And Mercy thinks she would be better 
pleased if she might weep occasionally, and go 
in search of some poor outcast from the realms 
of bliss ; or visit some abode of wretchedness ; 
or convey relief to some poor penitent in his 
night of grief, that she might gratify her sym- 
pathetic heart, and yet enjoy her relish for 
doing good to those who need her aid. And 
even now two large crystal tears are glistening 
in the corners of her eyes at the very thought. 
But a radiant smile illumining those tears trans- 
forms them into brilliants of most beautiful 
kind. And Mercy never looked so lovely, as 
when smiling through her tears. 

It is manifest that Mercy must be transformed 
to fit her perfectly for her new sphere. She 
cannot die, for she was born immortal. She 
cannot live, as she has been accustomed, in the 
upper sphere. She must be changed, but not 
destroyed; her own identity must be retained. 
And, with the transformation of her nature, she 



220 CHARITY AND MERCY, 

shall be newly named ; and then with Love may 
gloriously reign over the empire of Joy. 

Mercy's new name is Praise. Her humble, 
earthly raiment, soiled and worn, by creature 
imperfections and various griefs, shall now be 
laid aside, and she shall be arrayed in robes of 
"finest linen clean and white," " as no fuller on 
earth can whiten them," all made and fashioned 
according to the Gospel fashions, which are the 
only styles of much account in heaven. Her 
veil is a web of transparent humility, with a 
deep border of tender recollections, with in- 
wrought flowers of needlework of pleasant 
thoughts ;' and, after the ancient, oriental style, 
her veil reaches " from the crown of the head to 
the sole of the feet." 

Mercy's many tears, now changed to Calvary 
pearls, shall all be gathered up and hung in 
bright festoons of pure delight around her. Her 
natural habit of sighing is changed to a habit 
of singing ; and as she sorrowed spontaneously 
with every appropriate occasion, so now her 
ordinary breathing is to be pleasantly musical ; 
and she shall evermore as habitually sing as she 
formerly wept and sighed. Thus arrayed, and 



ASSOCIATED EMPRESSES. 221 

thus transformed, she looks beautiful as a seraph, 
happy as heart can bear. 

Mercy's distinguishing regalia shall be a 
scarf of crimson and white, with a Nazarene 
jewel like a heart that has been wounded and 
healed, with beams of gladness radiating from 
every part. And while the person of Mercy 
now appears as beautiful as any other, there is 
not a costume in heaven more truly elegant 
and becoming. Her new, imperial title is 
henceforth, Praise, Associate Empress of Joy. 



AND THEIR NEW OFFICES. 
ANALYSIS. 

Characteristic Action of Zeal — Cautioned by Humility — Effect 
on Zeal — His Commendable Doings — His Modest Confession — His 
Discreet Apology — Charity Interposes for Him — His Transforma- 
tion — Lessons in Elocution — Place and Part in the Orchestre — New 
Name — Ancient Badge — Zion Melodies — Industry*before the Throne 
— Handsome Appearance — Opinions respecting his Beauty — Report 
of his Doings — How he has Succeeded — His Efficient Helper — Gen- 
eral Favor — New Title — Beautiful Badge — Station in the Orchestre 
— New Station and Office — His Delightful Employment. 



ZEAL. 

'His heart was with Jerusalem; and strong 
As was a Mother's love, and the sweet ties 
Religion makes so beautiful at home, 
He flung them from him in his eager [ZeaL] 
And sought the broken people of his God, 
To preach to them of Jesus." 



" Zeal and duty are not slow ; 
But on Occasion's forelock watchful wait." 



Willis. 



Milton. 



INDUSTRY. 

" "Work for some good, be it ever so slowly ; 
Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly ; 
Labor — all labor is noble and holy." 

Mrs. Osgood. 

"Kot slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.' 

Mom. xii. 11. 



CHAPTER Y. 

ical anil litetrjr, 

AND THEIR NEW OFFICES. 

MOW Zeal, a little before his 
time, (for lie should wait for Industry,) 
with a hurried step advances to the throne, and, 
with almost rudeness of address, begins to pro- 
claim his doings. Humility, fearing or perceiv- 
ing some impropriety in the habitual zealot, 
quietly leaves her former position, and hurries to 
his side, lays her soft hand gently on his arm, 
and whispers in his ear. 

Zeal now appears surprisingly subdued ; his 
voice assumes a gentle modulation, his eyes are 
downcast, and his posture modest, while he 
states, (first having gained permission,) that in 
all his earthly labors he has earnestly endeav- 
ored to be true. And all the heavenly family 
are ready to assent to the general correctness 
of their brother Zeal's profession. 

Zeal has awakened Liberty when he slum- 

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226 ZEAL AND INDUSTET, 

bered at his post. And he has hurried Truth 
when he lingered by the way. He has anima- 
ted Mercy; he has encouraged Charity; he 
has inspired Industry; he has strengthened 
Virtue; and he has aided Temperance in her 
toil. He has done but little more than run 
about from one to another, lending a helping 
hand here and there, just as it seemed to be 
needed, and speaking inspiringly or severely, 
just as he happened to feel, in view of the ne- 
cessities of the case ; but it is manifest to all 
that just such a person was needed to perform 
this very labor, unpleasant and unnecessary as 
it may have formerly appeared to be. And 
every one is willing to say, that Zeal has aided 
in winning the day. 

Zeal, at the prompting of Humility, confesses 
the natural ardor of his temperament, and prays 
them to pardon whatever he may have said or 
done that has afflicted them. He is not insen- 
sible of the natural bluffness of his manners, and 
his rudeness — and even occasionally severity — 
of speech. But he claims to have been uni- 
formly upright in all his doings ; and he knows 
with certainty that his intentions were always 



AND THEIR NEW OFFICES. 227 

pure, whatever mistakes his natural ardency may 
have occasioned. 

Zeal pleads that he could never bear to see 
a good enterprise failing for want of energy in 
its promoters. Hence his ceaseless efforts to 
arouse the indolent, and animate the weary. He 
may have over-acted himself, and excited others 
to go beyond their natural strength; but he 
has deemed it better, as the common expres- 
sion is, "to wear out than to rust out." And 
he hopes his brothers and sisters, whom he does 
truly love, will all forgive him, if he has ever 
acted toward them or spoken in a way that im- 
plied severity or rashness on his part ; for he is 
unfeignedly sorry at the thought that he has 
ever wounded their more tender feelings by the 
ardency of his own. 

Now Charity interposes to express her entire 
satisfaction with her brother Zeal. She has al- 
ways thought that he was better at heart than 
he sometimes appeared in his words and doings. 
And she has always had the impression that 
Zeal had less regard for her than she has really 
felt for him. She thinks she can perceive 
through his somewhat rough exterior as warm 
and true a heart as throbs in any other bosom ; 



228 ZEAL AND INDUSTRY, 

and, for her part, she hopes that Zeal, without 
any further delay, will be rewarded with divine 
munificence for all the good he has done, and 
for all he has intended. And it is at once per- 
ceived that she has expressed the universal 
wishes of the rest. 

But Zeal must undergo a little transforma- 
tion, to fit him for the offices of his new position. 
And he is fully determined, as a principal thing, 
to be a little more familiar with Humility. And 
Charity, as the most accomplished elocutionist, 
promises, if he desires, to give him a few 
agreeable lessons in the finishing department 
of heaven's rhetoric. At the same time she 
kindly intimates that it would greatly promote 
her own enjoyment if her brother Zeal would 
condescend to favor her with a little more of his 
society than his former duties and positions per- 
mitted him to do. 

All heaven seems pleased, for Zeal is loved 
for the evident goodness of his heart, and the 
good he has performed. And he is now pro- 
moted to the principal leadership in the orches- 
tre of the upper sanctuary, to lead the tenor, 
while his sweet voiced sister Humility shall be 
stationed by his side to lead the alto. His name 



AND THEIR NEW OFFICES. 229 

is henceforth to be called Rapture, as most ex- 
pressive of his heavenly nature. His badge 
shall be a silver trumpet, of the Tabernacle 
fashion, ornamented with Gospel gems ; and, in 
connection, he shall have a scroll of Zion melo- 
dies, showing most of the notes on the upper 
portions of the staff, and many upon the leger 
lines. 

Next Industry advances to the throne, with 
steady leisurely steps, and a face somewhat em- 
browned and marked with toil, yet calm and 
healthy in its floridness, and bearing many tra- 
ces of original, manly beauty, which seem to 
need no medicine but rest, to make the face as 
beautiful to look upon as any one could prop- 
erly desire, or hope to meet with in the broth- 
erhood above. All the more reflective and 
sound in judgment in respect to personal looks, 
pronounce his countenance a handsome one ; 
and even those who pride themselves a little on 
their cultivated and courtly taste in matters of 
this kind, are free to say, that, though not the 
beau ideal of manly beauty in all respects, yet 
Industry's fine countenance is far from being 
unpleasant to gaze upon. And all agree that it 



230 ZEAL AND INDUSTRY, 

seems to improve by becoming more familiar 
with it. 

The diligent brother has nothing for himself 
to say in particular, but leaves it for others, if 
they know of any good in him, or any good 
performed by him, to speak in his behalf. But, 
as it may be expected from him, he modestly 
refers to what he has succeeded in accomplish- 
ing, not so much as evidence of genius or of 
skill, as proof that patient diligence, with com- 
mon sense and means, may be successful in the 
various pursuits appropriate for unaspiring life. 

That he has been diligent, his works declare. 
His moments have been husbanded and used. 
Indeed, by patient toil, he has accomplished 
what his brother Zeal could never have per- 
formed ; some things that have occasioned cost 
of time, and much expense of persevering 
thought. But his gentle sister Patience has 
been his constant aid, when no one else could 
help him ; not so much by any strength of arms, 
or suppleness of feet, as by her own peculiar 
method of bringing to pass what strength and 
neetness always fail to secure. 

Industry's excellence is praised by all. All 
feel their obligation for his aid, and all unite in 



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AND THEIR NEW OFFICES. 231 

suggesting for him a different name. Industry 
is henceforth to be known as Delight, a name 
as appropriate to express the result of his do- 
ings, as of the tendency of such a disposition as 
that which actuates his life. His badge shall 
be a pearl Cornucopia, pouring out abundance 
of delicious fruits and beautiful flowers. In the 
orchestre he is to lead the bass ; his station be- 
ing in the rear of Rapture. 

And Industry shall not only have a new name, 
but a new office ; he is appointed the Prince 
Gardener of Eden, to take the entire supervis- 
ion of all things pertaining to the present ar- 
rangements, and the contemplated improve- 
ments, in the grounds devoted to the residence 
and recreations of the Divine Family. 

In his official capacity as Prince of Eden, he 
is expected to lay out the walks, to embellish 
the bowers, to culture the fruits, to nourish 
the flowers; and, with all the helpers that may 
be needed, he is expected, as most pleasing to 
his native taste, to spend much of his time in 
presiding over these delightful labors. 



fataa auir f amUitj. 

AND THEIR IMPERIAL OFFICES. 
ANALYSIS. 

Patience before the Throne — All ready to Praise Pier — Her Inter- 
esting Appearance — Praise Affected — Truth Unusually Moved — 
Impulsive Action of Hope — Effect upon Others — Industry's Propo- 
sition — Distinguishing Badge — New Title — Humility's Pleasing 
Appearance — Characteristic Diffidence — Generous Emulation in 
Her Behalf — Her Influence — Charity's Request — Humility nearly 
Faints — Who Sustains Her — Truth's Revelation — Humility made 
an Empress — Her Transformation — New Costume — Diadem — Impe- 
rial Title — A Blissful Trinity — Humility's Place in the Orchestre — 
Her Distinguishing Badge — Petition of Praise — Her Place and 
Part in the Choir — Additional Badge — Leading Voices, &a. 



HUMILITY. 

"The noble find their 
Lives and deaths still troublesome; 
But Humility doth sleep, whilst the storm. 
Grows hoarse with scolding." 

DavenanL 

"Humility, that low, sweet root, 
From which ail heavenly virtues shoot." 



Moore. 



PATIEXCS. 

' Many are the sayings of the wise, 

In ancient and in modern books enrolled, 

Extolling Patience as the truest fortitude. 



Milton. 



"Ye have need of Patience, that, after ye have done the will of 
God, ye might receive the promise." — Heb. x. 36. 



CHAPTER MfL 

f aftcitn antr §ttmtl% 

AND THEIR IMPERIAL OFFICES. 

MOW Patiejstce appears ; but 
she seems in no hurry : she comes for- 
ward because she is called. So far as appear- 
ances speak, she seems to express a preference 
to wait for all the others. Yet, with accustomed 
obedience, unquestioning and unreluctant, she 
advances to receive her reward. All are earn- 
est in her praise ; and all express their warm af- 
fection for their gentle sister. So inoffensive, 
so uncomplaining, so sweetly submissive has 
been her life, that she has no enemy there, but 
an admiring friend in every one. 

Industry for once seems zealous, and Zeal 
appears industrious, to speak in praise of Pa- 
tience. And Truth, and especially faith, give 
no occasion for Patience to speak, but strive 
with friendly emulation to speak in her behalf. 
And there she stands, complacently and quietly 



236 PATIENCE AND HUMILITY, 

in the midst, admired of all, and waiting for the 
action of the others to decide her own. 

And there the sweet voiced, submissive sis- 
ter waits, with a shade of sorrow, half lit by a 
smile, lingering npon her calm, sweet face ; and 
she seems to be too sober, too nearly sad, for 
the happiness of heaven. Her meekly sober 
countenance and gentle eye, so manifestly ex- 
pressive of her heart, seem to subdue with un- 
usual tenderness all the spirits around her. 

Praise — who was formerly Mercy — has to 
struggle to keep from tears; not from sorrow, 
indeed, but from generous, melting affection 
and sympathetic joy. And Truth, recollecting 
what Patience has endured all the years of her 
earthly life, feels his own heart strangely soft- 
ened, and his usually well-disciplined counte- 
nance moved, with the memory of sorrow and 
the sympathy of joy. 

And Patience continues there to stand, with 
neither smiles nor tears, with an attitude and 
face appropriate for neither, yet not unfitting 
both. But Hope cannot restrain her feelings 
any longer. She springs to that calm bosom, 
throws her loving arms around her, imprints a 
kiss on both her cheeks, that leaves a lasting, 



AND THEIR IMPERIAL OFFICES. 237 

radiant smile, and Patience gleams with joy. 
All heaven is glad, and every face seems brighter 
from that smile. 

Industry begs leave to build for Patience a 
palace in the loveliest part of Eden. And all 
the brother and sisterhood are expected to be 
familiar there. Her badge shall be a flowing 
river, delightfully calm, with islands of olive 
and borders of balm. And her name shall be 
changed from Patience to Peace ; and she is 
enthroned as Empress of Eden. 

And now Humility, with a gentle step and 
inimitable modesty of countenance, approaches, 
as Patience retires. More radiant faces, and 
more beautiful — more classically beautiful — per- 
haps there might be found ; but not one coun- 
tenance more truly pleasing and more sweetly 
innocent than hers. Always a general favorite, 
and yet habitually meek, she was never more 
lovely, or more beloved, than now. 

But what has Humility accomplished? and 
what reward shall be bestowed ? For herself 
she cannot easily speak, but others are eloquent 
in her behalf. Each one has something good 
to say, and some appropriate commendation and 
heavenly honor to propose. There seems a 



238 PATIENCE AND HUMILITY, 

friendly rivalry throughout the blissful family 
to be as forward in speakiug for Humility as 
she is diffident in speaking for herself. And she 
never loses anything by her modesty of bear- 
ing, for her evident excellence has never 
needed forwardness, or haughtiness of carriage, 
to make a good impression on wise and noble 
minds. 

As Humility has been the gentle Monitress 
of all the heavenly family ; having evidently add- 
ed to the excellence of each ; giving beauty to 
the beautiful, and wisdom to the wise ; all seem 
endeavoring to suggest some exalted honor as 
the appropriate reward of such a character as 
she has ever displayed. 

And now the Empress Charity, with accus- 
tomed generosity, makes her request: "is 
Mercy, by my request, is raised to share my throne 
in Joy's extended empire, so let Humility ; or else 
let me resign, and her be crowned instead, as being 
luorthier of this exalted honor, and better skilled 
to govern multitudes than Z" 

Humility, with overpowering surprise, turns 
pale, and seems to faint. But Rapture, running 
quickly to her side, supports her with his arm. 
Then Truth approaches with an open book, of 



AND THEIR IMPERIAL OFFICES. 239 

ancient records of the upper courts, which with 
authority declare that she shall be exalted to a 
throne. 

And thus it is decreed : Humility shall share 
the throne with Mercy and with Charity, and 
rule with them the broad Empire of Joy. All 
heaven approves ; but no one looks more pleased 
than she who made the request, or she who by 
request had been already seated on the throne, 
as the associate Empress of the glad domain. 
For Mercy — now called Praise — is so united 
with her sister Love, that what one feels or 
speaks, the other feels or speaks as with the 
other's heart, and with the other's lips. 

But Humility must be transformed to fit her 
perfectly for her new sphere. Her costume 
now may be of brighter hues, and more impos- 
ing in its queenly style. A brilliant diadem 
shall grace her head, sparkling with diamonds 
from the Bethlehem mines. Such air of digni- 
ty shall veil her person, such glory radiate from 
all her features, and such serenity shall fill her 
heart, that she shall evermore be known in the 
court language of the heavenly world, as Her 
Meek Majesty, Queen Complacency. 

And thus Complacency, and Love, and Praise 



240 PATIENCE AND HUMILITY, 

— a blissful trinity — shall reign in unison upon 
the throne of Joy. Complacency assents, but 
claims a place, appropriate for her former state, 
in the celestial orchestre, on days of jubilee, 
and on the frequent Sabbaths, when sacrifice is 
made, and incense offered to the risen Lamb. 
She says she never could consent to wear a 
crown, if that would hinder her from taking 
part in the exultant music of the redeemed. 

Complacency obtains the place she most de- 
sired, and sits beside her brother Rapture in 
the orchestre, to lead the alto in the minstrelsy 
that thrills the galleries above. Her badge 
shall be a golden harp, of royal David's pattern, 
with an open scroll of music in her hand, the 
notes below the middle of the staff. 

And now the empress Praise — once Mercy 
called on earth — bows meekly before the throne, 
and prays that she might also, with Compla- 
cency, receive a station in the tuneful choir ; 
for she cannot submit to be enthroned over 
such an empire, and show herself in such mag- 
nificent array, if she may not unite her grate- 
ful voice to swell the psalmody of joy and 
gratitude. 

The prayer of Praise is heard; her place 






AND THEIR IMPERIAL OFFICES. 241 

shall be beside her brother Industry, (now 
called Delight,) to lead the lively treble of the 
choir. To her former badge is added now a 
lute of Eden's pattern, and a volume of Jerusa- 
lem melodies, where the music fills all the lines 
and spaces of the staff. 

And thus the leading voices in the orchestre 
are so arranged as ever to secure the sweetest 
and the most varied harmonies. First, Rap- 
ture leads the inspiring tenor, and gives direc- 
tion to the choir when they unite in pleasing 
concerts of adoration and praise for all the 
mercies of redeeming grace. Delight leads off 
the bass, and shows his scientific taste and skill 
in making pleasing melody of the lower notes 
that happy spirits sing. And mild Complacen- 
cy will ever lead the soft, sweet alto of the 
chants that swell from grateful bosoms in the 
heavenly choir. 

And Praise, with ever varying, ever thrilling 
notes, both medial, low, and high, forte, and 
pianissimo ; — notes sung staccato, when mer- 
cies are the theme, and then legato, when the 
strain is love ; — crescendo strains, when glory 
divine is sung, diminuendo, when the theme is 
man; — all possible expression, all modes of 
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242 PATIENCE AND HUMILITY. 

time, all kinds of accent, and music that re- 
peats ; — all this belongs to Praise. And thus 
the harmonies that thrill the myriads of the 
happy world. 



ImplsMmJr iter wto §ffut 



ANALYSIS. 

Impulse's Various Emotions — Almost Swoons — How she is Re- 
lieved — Former Mistake in Choosing Associates — Opinion Respecting 
Hope — Who should have been her Intimates — Why they were Not 
— Two Unsocial Sisters — Occasional Talk in the Family — Endeav- 
ors to Conceal it — It becomes generally Known — Exaggeration — 
Explanation — Impulse before the Throne — How Supported — Truth's 
Report — Liberty's Confirmation — Zeal's Eulogy — Contemplation's 
Manner of Address — His Unexpected Confession and Wish — An 
Exciting Reconciliation — How Others are Affected — Patience ver- 
sus Impulse — Serious Aspect of Things — Two Counselors Chosen — 
The Prince Counselor Appointed to Preside — Prepares for his Of- 
fice — Law Customs Observed — A Fair Hearing of both Sides — The 
Final Decision — How it is Received — Apology for Impulse — Her 
New Name — Her New Office — Her Badge. 



IMPULSE. 

" To thought's tumultuous flow 
I strive to give the strength of glowing words, 

The waves of feeling, tossing to and fro, 
In broken music o'er my heart's loose chords, 
Give but their fainting echoes from my soul, 
As through its silent depths their wild, swift currents roll. 

Mrs. Welby. 

"]S"ot easier yields the harp-string to the touch 
Of lightest finger, than her throbbing heart 
Yields to the gentlest prompting from within. 
The sweet Eolian not sooner tells 
"When Zephyr breathes upon it, than her soul 
Gives indication of the influence 
That mildest moves without." 

Anonymous. 




CHAPTER VII. 

f mplsc antr jjcr udu ®ffta 

OT one of the Divide Family 

approached the Throne, for the purpose 
of hearing the final decision, with more emotion, 
and with more uncertainty of expectation, than 
Impulse. Sometimes, when she was in her hap- 
piest mood, she wished she could fly right up 
to the judgment Throne, she was so sure of meet- 
ing with a gracious reception, and a glorious 
reward. At other times, when she was in the 
opposite mood, she trembled at the thought of 
the final decision ; and her anticipations were 
of the gloomiest kind. 

While she was waiting with the rest to be 
called before the Throne, she passed through all 
varieties of feeling between cloudless hope and 
cloudy despair. As one after another was ap- 
proved and blest, and she perceived that her 
own case would soon be examined, her feelings 
became too intense to be endured, without sup- 



246 IMPULSE AND 

port from some of the others. So she fell into 
the arms of her sister Faith, having almost faint- 
ed, and Humility knelt by her side and gently 
fanned her, and she soon revived. 

Now Impulse had not taken the wisest course 
for herself in her intercourse with the other 
members of the family, for she had selected her 
intimates with less regard to her own personal 
benefit than for the present pleasure of their so- 
ciety. She was much of the time with her 
brother Zeal, especially when he was most ex- 
cited, and thought no hours more pleasantly 
spent than when dashing about with him. She 
always endeavored, however, to be employed 
usefully, and felt a natural attachment to Zeal, 
because he seemed to be best adapted to pro- 
mote the various enterprises she was endeavor- 
ing to accomplish. And it seemed to her that 
the one who had the strongest limbs, the fiercest 
courage, and the greatest activity, was the very 
one that she could unite with to the best ad- 
vantage. 

And Impulse thought very favorably of her 
sister Hope, and was accustomed to spend quite 
a portion of the time in her society. Yet there 
were seasons when Impulse thought Hope was 



HER NEW OFFICE. 247 

altogether too jubilant and airy ; for Impulse 
was sometimes affected with sadness, when she 
considered the discouragements in her way ; 
and then she had no disposition to associate 
with her always cheerful and buoyant sister. At 
such times Impulse felt as if there was not one 
in the whole family who could sympathize with 
her, and cordially unite with her to accomplish 
her unpromising undertakings. 

Now there was one of the family with whom 
Impulse would have found it very profitable to 
associate ; for in that association she might have 
acquired some qualities which would have been 
of great advantage to her. This one was Pa- 
tience ; the quiet, resigned, even-tempered Pa- 
tience. But perhaps there was not one of the 
family that Impulse thought so little of, or with 
whom she spent so little time, as Patience. 
When she made her occasional visits to Pa- 
tience, or Patience returned her calls, they 
seemed to have almost nothing in common to 
talk about, and the visit seemed to be a mere 
formality, well enough in its place, perhaps, as 
a matter of respectable courtesy among family 
relations, but not such a cordial greeting and 
flowing together of kindred hearts as must be 



248 IMPULSE AND 

witnessed and experienced to give one an idea 
of Paradisiacal bliss. 

In fact, if the whole truth must be revealed, 
Impulse and Patience were hardly on speaking 
terms with each other during a great part of 
their earthly existence. And although they did 
endeavor, for the sake of appearances, to seem 
respectful, and even at times almost or quite 
cordial with each other, yet the more knowing 
ones of the family, could not help observing that 
the two sisters were not living together with 
that cordial intimacy and sisterly affection that 
all desired to witness. 

The unsociable coldness between the two sis- 
ters was talked of frequently by some of the 
senior members of the Divine Family, and vari- 
ous plans were devised to bring the two to- 
gether as often as possible, in hopes that they 
would gradually conceive a liking for each oth- 
er, and have the alienation — if there was any — 
pass quietly away. And all did earnestly en- 
deavor to keep the matter wholly within the 
family, lest it should get abroad, with many ex- 
aggerations, that there was — or certainly had 
been — a quarrel — or something of the sort — 
among the divine children, and the whole fami- 



HER NEW OFFICE. 249 

ly suffer seriously in its reputation among the 
people of the world. 

But the whole matter got out; or — more 
properly — it was never entirely unknown to the 
world's people, for they are extremely keen- 
sighted to discover anything amiss in the con- 
duct of the Divine Family ; and the whole was 
probably understood and talked of out of the 
family almost as soon as it was suspected within. 
And, as it is to be expected in such cases, the 
truth in the matter was greatly exaggerated, 
and many entirely unfounded reports put in cir- 
culation in connection with it, and the whole 
family suffered in their reputation among their 
neighbors, and their influence was proportion- 
ally injured. 

But, after all, no one could prove that Im- 
pulse and Patience had ever been living at 
enmity, or that either had ever endeavored to 
injure the other. It was not of the nature of a 
quarrel, and both were utter strangers to ill- 
will. But it was merely an extreme dissimilari- 
ty of taste and disposition, naturally leading to 
opposite choices of intimates and pursuits. 
Both of the sisters were perfect specimen's of the 
opposites, each perfect in her own sphere, and 
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250 IMPULSE AND 

each specifically adapted to her own station and 
pursuits. The Divine Family would have been 
manfestly incomplete, without both of these 
members. Each has well performed her appro- 
priate part in the general enterprise, and each 
is equally entitled to commendation and re- 
ward. 

All this answered a very good purpose in the 
lower sphere, where imperfections are expected 
from the nature of the case. But what shall 
now be done to bring these two unsocial sisters 
into such fellowship and love as must be felt 
and manifested in the family above ? Patience 
has already been not only honorably acquitted 
from any implied or suspected fault, so that 
no possible blame can be attached to her — but 
even flatteringly commended, and gloriously 
rewarded; and the whole blame — if there is 
any — of having lived in coldness with Patience, 
must be thrown entirely upon Impulse. And 
now it appears to her in such a light that she 
almost despairs of being even acquitted — much 
less rewarded — in the disposition of her case. 

Impulse is finally summoned to approach the 
judgment Throne. But she is so feeble and 
faint with the intensity of her emotions, that 



HER NEW OFFICE. 251 

she can scarcely stand alone. So her good sis- 
ters Faith and Humility offer to approach with 
her, and she very thankfully accepts of their 
kind assistance, coming forward between them, 
with her arms firmly linked with theirs. As 
she approaches, however, and shows her entire 
willingness to have her case investigated in the 
same manner as the others, she perceives that 
between Faith and Humility her strength is 
every moment increasing, and she takes her sta- 
tion with as much assurance as many of the rest 
have exhibited during their examination. 

Truth is called upon to report what he knows 
in the case, and his report, on the whole, is 
more favorable than might have been expected. 
A very great amount of good has been accom- 
plished through the direct influence of Impulse, 
and it is on record that there have been some 
emergencies where the whole family must have 
utterly failed of success, if Impulse had not 
aroused and electrified them with her example 
and appeals. 

And Liberty fully confirms the testimony of 
his brother Truth. He says that very fre- 
quently in his severest conflicts, when it did 
seem as if the battle would certainly go against 



252 IMPULSE AND 

him, and he was on the very point of surrender- 
ing, or beating a retreat, his sister Impulse, who 
happened to be in the camp, would seize a ban- 
ner, and rush out into the very thickest of the 
fight, (as some of the ancient heroines did,) 
and turn the whole tide of battle, and secure a 
glorious victory after all. And Liberty waxes 
warm in praise of Impulse. 

By this time Zeal begins to rouse himself, 
and he enters upon his sister's defense with char- 
acteristic ardency, and lauds her to the very 
heavens, as one of the most active, fearless, gen- 
erous members of the whole family. He seems 
entirely to forget that it is not an eulogy, but 
testimony, that is desired ; and continues speak- 
ing in his off-hand, animated manner, until Hu- 
mility entreats him to stop, lest he should, by 
overdoing, hinder instead of helping. 

Contemplation is asked if he has anything to 
say to the discredit of Impulse, inasmuch as it is 
generally understood that they were not on the 
most affectionate terms. After thinking a mo- 
ment, he replied with great deliberation and 
courtesy, that he did formerly fear that his sis- 
ter Impulse was not as much given to reflec- 
tion as might have been for her advantage. 



HER NEW OFFICE, 253 

And he was willing to admit that — -not from 
alienation of feelings — bnt rather from dissimi- 
larity of temperament and pursuits, they had not 
been as cordial and intimate as brother and sis- 
ter should always be. But, said he, (after 
another pause,) on more mature consideration, 
I am inclined to think that it would have been 
as much to my own advantage to have associa- 
ted intimately with Impulse, as for her advan- 
tage to have associated with me. And, on the 
whole, if she can pardon me for my extreme 
unsociableness, and the ungenerous intimations 
that I may have made, and consents to favor 
me with more of her sprightly and agreeable 
society than I formerly sought for, I shall great- 
ly rejoice to be on the most familiar brotherly 
and sisterly terms in my new vocation. 

Contemplation having thus expressed him- 
self and resumed his seat, Impulse — before she 
thought how it would look at such a time, 
sprung to his bosom, and embraced him, and 
kissed him over and over again ; and all the 
Divine Family smiled with pleasure at the scene. 
Hope fairly danced with delight; Charity ran 
to them and embraced them both ; Zeal was 
almost disorderly with laughing and clapping 



254 IMPULSE AND 

his hands ; and even Justice smiled most ap- 
provingly, and gave it as his opinion that the 
whole transaction was most equitable and ap- 
propriate. 

In the tumult of the occasion, it was almost 
forgotten that Patience and Impulse had been — 
even more than Impulse and Contemplation — ■ 
on unsocial terms, and that Patience might have 
something to say that would affect the disposi- 
tion of the case. So, as soon as order was re- 
stored, Patience was called upon to state wheth- 
er she knew of anything prejudicial to the char- 
acter of Impulse, that ought to be understood 
before the case was finally disposed of. 

. Now, at this stage of the proceedings, mat- 
ters began to assume a much more serious as- 
pect than previously, for the apparent aliena- 
tion between Impulse and Patience had become 
so generally known, and had been of such long 
standing, too, that the matter could not be passed 
over hastily, as if it were something of little or 
no importance. Real difficulties — if not real 
impossibilities — seemed to be in the way of an 
amicable adjustment that would be truly equita- 
ble and agreeable to all. 

Finally, as the choice of both the parties at 



HER NEW OFFICE. 255 

issue, (to use such a term,) it was arranged that 
Humility should speak for Impulse, and Charity 
for Patience, as their respective counselors. 
And it was further agreed that their brother 
Justice should preside as judge at the investi- 
gation. So Justice put on his ermine, and took 
his golden balances, and proceeded to call the 
case of Patience versus Impulse. And Truth 
was instructed to preserve a full record of the 
proceedings. 

When Patience was asked to proceed, she re- 
plied that it would be agreeable to her to wait 
until her sister of the other party had first an 
opportunity to represent her case ; for, said she, 
I presume that Impulse has as much reason to 
complain of me as I have to complain of her. 
(Now it should be remembered that Patience 
did not speak this with her own lips, but — as 
the custom is in such cases — she spoke through 
her adviser Charity.)* 

To this, Humility answered, in behalf of Im- 
pulse, that she presumed her friend had been 
just as much in the fault (if any one was to 

* The author does not wish to be considered as advocating di- 
rectly or indirectly the idea of ladies pleading in our courts of 
law. It should be borne in mind that this was only a family affair, 
and was settled among themselves, an elder brother presiding. 



256 IMPULSE AND 

blame) as the friend on the other side ; and, as 
for herself, she (Humility) was glad to announce 
that her friend was not only willing, but even 
anxious to have the whole matter settled by sub- 
mitting to whatever might be proposed on the 
other side ; for, she continued, my friend Im- 
pulse is now entirely of the same mind with 
myself, and not only has nothing against Pa- 
tience, but is ready to say a thousand hand- 
some things in her favor. 

To this, Charity returned answer, in behalf 
of Patience, that although her friend had fre- 
quently thought that Impulse did not esteem 
her very highly, yet she had often wished that 
she was more like Impulse herself, and were less 
languid and irresolute. And she stated, further- 
more, that Patience, while she has never com- 
plained of her lot, has freely admitted that she 
has seen so much sprightliness and effective 
vigor in Impulse, that she (Patience) would 
have felt quite contented if she had been made 
much more like Impulse herself. 

Then Humility, for her friend, replied, that 
they had nothing against Patience, but much 
in her favor ; that they had considered Pa- 
tience one of the most even tempered, uncom- 



HER NEW OFFICE. 257 

plaining, and amiable members of the family. 
She also said that Impulse desired to make a full 
confession to Patience, of having often, and in 
sundry ways, undoubtedly wounded her tender 
feelings by hasty expressions and indiscreet ac- 
tions ; and that she was deeply impressed that 
her sister Patience was in all respects her supe- 
rior in all the quiet virtues of the feminine char- 
acter, and was in the highest sense worthy of her 
sincerest sisterly affection and confidence. 

By this time Justice was smiling with ap- 
proving pleasure, and announced as his decision 
(which was advisory, however,) that Patience 
and Impulse, having nothing against each other, 
but much in each other's favor, should on the 
spot give a token of sisterly love, and mutually 
agree to associate together with more intimacy 
than they had cultivated in the lower sphere. 

With this decision both the sisters were inex- 
pressibly pleased, and showed their approbation 
by an unmistakable sisterly embrace, which was 
very pleasing to Charity and Humility, who 
had undertaken to bring about such a happy 
issue of the unpleasant affair. 

There being now nothing in the way, Im- 
pulse was permitted to receive her commenda- 

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258 IMPULSE AND 

tion and reward. She had well accomplished 
her mission, and had contributed largely to the 
general success. It is true that she had not al- 
ways been the most deliberate and cautious; 
and it is equally true that her peculiar office did 
neither require nor permit much deliberation. 
She was expected to hold herself always in readi- 
ness to act on the spur of the moment, on such 
occasions as demanded such kind of efforts. 
She was not intended to fill the place of Truth 
or Justice, or to do the work of Contempla- 
tion, or suffer with Patience. She has had her 
own work — her own peculiar work — and has 
well performed it. What shall be done for 
her? 

Impulse shall have a new name : henceforth 
she shall be called Ecstacy. Her nature needs 
no essential transformation, for, remaining as 
she is, the new position, and the consequent 
change of vocation, will of themselves occasion 
all desirable changes in her character. Con- 
templation asks that she may be associated 
with him in his office of President Instructor ; 
but it seemed more befitting her natural taste 
and endowments that she should be the Prin- 
cess Musician for the orchestre, to compose 



HER NEW OFFICE. 259 

such songs and anthems as special occasions 
might render appropriate. For her badge, 
she received Miriam's Timbrel. And she pre- 
sides, on all the great festivals, over all the 
daughters of melody that belong to the heav- 
enly choir. 



fetmgbta'g f nmurtimu 



ANALYSIS. 

Contemplation's Personal Bearing — His Embarrassment — Faith's 
Testimony — "What she would Recommend — Industry's Confession — 
Truth's Eulogy — His Request — Contemplation's New Title and Of- 
fice — His Transformation — His Distinguishing Badge — His Volumes 
of Instruction — His Assistants — Hope's Department — Faith's De- 
partment — Truth's Department — Charity's Department — Industry's 
Department — Zeal's Department. 



CONTEMPLATION. 

"Not a single path 
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God," 

Bailey. 

u Stay winged Thought ! I fain would question thee ! 
Though thy bright pinion is less palpable 
Than filmy gossamer, more swift in flight 
Than light's transmitted ray." 

Mrs. Sigourney. 

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." 

Wordsworth. 

"Standstill, and consider the wondrous works of God." 

Job, xxxvii. 14. 

"Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 

Prov. iv. 26. 

" He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered." 

Ps. cxi. 4. 







CHAPTER VIII. 

Confmjjlattoit's f romoftoiL 

EXT Contemplation leisure- 
ly advances, with habitual serenity and 
thoughtfulness of face, and waits in silence rev- 
erently to receive whatever may be awarded 
him. For habitual discretion, and wisely-or- 
dered speech, he has never had an equal in the 
world. He has rarely said too much, but fre- 
quently too little, if his general reputation has 
been just. But few among his kindred have 
known his real worth ; for his intellectuality has 
so rarely been emotional that he never could 
develop half he felt within his soul. 

And even now Contemplation appears to be 
embarrassed at the thought of being questioned, 
and his countenance betrays more than words 
could well express. He was never fluent in his 
speech, and usually the more he had to say the 
less he could express. He has been prized 



264 CONTEMPLATION'S 

however by some of the Divine Family ; espe- 
cially by those who are more naturally thought- 
ful in their disposition ; and his particular 
friends are among the most respectable and in- 
fluential of the group. 

Faith is ready to confess her great obligation 
to her meditative brother ; and acknowledges 
that some of her most valuable discoveries have 
been made under his instructions. He has 
greatly strengthened her vision, and enabled her 
to look afar off, and have clear perceptions of 
things beyond the ordinary range of vision. He 
has instructed her to penetrate beneath the com- 
mon surface, and search out hidden treasure 
previously unknown. She learned her primary 
lessons under his instructions, and all her ripest 
scholarship may be ascribed to his superior 
skill in teaching the deeper things of Divinity. 
Faith feels as if he ought to be crowned King of 
Knowledge, if she is permitted to be the Queen. 

Industry ascribes to Contemplation a thou- 
sand valuable facilities for the accomplishment 
of his labor. As for himself, he has never had 
much time, and but little taste, for the system- 
atic thinking that has suited Contemplation. 
It was always easier for him to keep steadily at 



PROMOTION. 265 

work under the direction of his superiors in wis- 
dom, than to puzzle himself with planning and 
contriving how to do. And he admits that his 
more reflective brother has been generous of 
his thoughts, and freely permitted him to avail 
himself of any discovery or suggestion that 
might be of service to him in his daily toil. 

But Truth is eloquent in his praise of Con- 
templation. And Justice ascribes much of his 
judicial wisdom to him. Contemplation would 
sometimes sit up all night with him to aid him 
in his legal investigations. And Justice wishes 
it to be understood as his particular request that 
Contemplation may be associated with him in 
his new vocation ; because he has found him so 
indispensable in his former station, and has con- 
ceived for him such a real respect and affection, 
he would like to enjoy his counsel and society 
as associate Prince Counselor in the higher 
court. 

But a more appropriate station is reserved 
for Contemplation ; he is promoted to the office 
of President Instuctor for all the pupils in the 
school above. Such as enter uninformed of 
the higher branches of the heavenly studies, he 
is to take under his own supervision, and lead 
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266 CONTEMPLATION'S 

them onward in their education, until they in 
turn become teachers to others, and so all heav- 
en, by constant progression, continue to grow 
in knowledge and grace, through the long 
cycles of perpetual years. 

And Contemplation must receive a transfor- 
mation to befit his new vocation, and still retain 
his name. He is henceforth to be more emo- 
tional, and not less intellectual, so that, with the 
same reflecting powers, he may be truly elo- 
quent, and thrill the souls of his pupils with the 
pathos of his words. His motions are to be 
much more sprightly, and his countenance more 
luminous, so that, from being the dullest of the 
family, he may be full of buoyancy and talk with 
pleasing fluency, as he entertains his company 
with stories of the past. 

His badge shall be a crystal of the largest 
size, with the Tetragrammaton* gleaming with 
prismatic tints from the center of it. He shall 
teach his pupils from the brooks and fountains, 
from the trees and flowers, from the seas and 
mountains, from the clouds of glory and the 
luminaries of heaven, from all creature forms, 

* The four letters which the ancients used to represent the un- 
speakable name of the Deity. 



PROMOTION. 267 

and all divine displays: In short, his lecture 
room is everywhere, his books are everything ; 
his lessons range through countless worlds, and 
history and the sciences, and the doings of Di- 
vinity, are all comprised within the limits of his 
boundless range. 

Contemplation has permission to employ any 
member of the family whose services may be 
desired. Sometimes Hope is invited to instruct 
the pupils in things not yet revealed. Some- 
times Faith lends her aid to investigate invisi- 
ble things which are dimly shadowed forth. 
And Truth instructs sometimes in the history 
of the past. And Justice discourses of law and 
obligation. And Mercy rehearses the story 
of redemption. And Charity lectures on the 
science of friendship and social joy. Industry 
is expected to give lessons in the art of suc- 
cessful labor. And Zeal instructs in the 
science of motion and physical power. Thus 
all the Divine Family may, in some way appro- 
priate to their several positions, be engaged at 
times with Contemplation in the educational 
improvement of all the heavenly school. 



gutiitt ani |is $£ta& 



ANALYSIS. 

Personal Bearing — Respect for Authority — His Desire — Improved 
Appearance — The Record Read — Pause in the Proceedings — Hu- 
mility Troubled — Hope's Assurance — Zeal's Impatience — Justice's 
Appearance — Unpleasant Recollection — The Announcement — Un- 
founded Suppositions — Justice's Apprehension — Mercy's Interpo- 
sition — Her Service Declined — Justice's Apology for Mercy — Chari- 
ty's Emotion — Mercy's Gratitude — The Cause Explained — Decision 
of the Case — General Satisfaction — Justice Promoted — Title and 
Nature of his Vocation — Natural Transformation — The Reasons 
Given — Mercy's Admiration — Justice Retains his Identity. 



JUSTICE. 

"A happy lot be thine, and larger light 
Await thee there ; for thou hast bound thy will, 

In cheerful homage to the rule of right, 
And lovest all, and doest good for ill." 

Bryant. 

"Justice, like lightning, ever should appear 
To few men's ruin, but to all men's fear." 

Swetman. 



" Man is unjust, but God is just ; 
And finally Justice triumphs." 



Longfellow. 



" The Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and 
glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk 
uprightly." — Ps. lxxxiv. 11. 




CHAPTER IX. 

fitstia anfo |ii§ |Uiirark 

'HERE is no one that ap- 
proaches the Divine Throne, to hear 
commendation and receive reward, with more 
perfect self-possession and subdued expression 
than Justice. With an approving conscience, 
and an enlightened judgment, he approaches 
with confidence to give account of himself, and 
receive just that measure of approbation and re- 
ward that may be deemed appropriate and just. 
It does not enter his thoughts to call in ques- 
tion the legality of the rules of decision, or the 
competency of the authority that administers, 
for he has but one governing principle to guide 
him, and that is, to yield implicit submission to 
the ruling Powers. 

As he has desired to be treated, when he sat 
in the lower courts, so he means to comport 
himself now that he stands, in a certain sense, 
before the superior Judge. He craves no par- 



272 JUSTICE AND 

ticular favor, shrinks from no appropriate inves- 
tigation, and demurs to no official decision. 
Let righteousness reign is his ruling desire. 
Let the majesty of law be maintained, whoever 
may suffer, is his motto now, as it has been from 
the first. 

He hopes the most impartial investigation 
may be had, and that all the facts that are rel- 
evant may be elicited and duly considered. 
And he requests that Truth may be permitted, 
without hinderance or fear, to lay all the records 
of the lower courts before the Throne. What- 
ever may be the result, he calmly awaits it, and 
determines to abide it, because he is confident 
that it will be right. 

Justice never appeared more noble than now. 
He never showed himself more worthy of the 
judicial robes. All the Divine Family regard 
him with deep veneration and admiring love. 
Even Mercy, who has so frequently complained 
of his inflexible purpose to administer the laws 
without partiality or fear, now perceives the 
superior wisdom of his judicial proceedings, 
and begs her sister Cbarity to make an apolo- 
-gy for her frequent interruptions of Justice in 



HIS REWARD. 273 

the lower courts, and crave his pardon in her 
behalf. 

Truth now presents all the appropriate 
documents, and, after a little, there is a pause 
in the investigation. Humility looks a little 
troubled, and steps up cautiously behind Hope, 
and in a whisper inquires if the case is likely 
to go hard with Justice. Hope looks a little 
more sober than usual, but with her customary 
smile she assures Humility that all will come 
out right in the end. 

Zeal begins to feel a little uneasy at this 
pause in the proceedings, and would have in- 
quired the reason ; but Patience winked at him, 
and made a sign to him to hold his peace. 
But many of them were wondering at the de- 
lay in the investigation; and Justice himself 
was a little in doubt respecting the issue of the 
proceedings. But still he retained his look 
and attitude of entire submission ; although it 
did not require a very penetrating glance to 
perceive that the expression of his face was 
more sad "than joyful, and that he was more re- 
signed than hopeful. 

The truth is, Justice had never felt quite sat- 
isfied with himself since that time when Mercy 
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274 JUSTICE AND 

so irregularly carried the penitent prisoner 
away from the court. He was rather inclined 
to think that the record of that transaction 
would be unfavorable to his case. But Mercy 
had forgotten all about it, and was wondering 
what was the occasion of the delay. 

Finally, after a little more suspense, it was 
announced that the record showed some irreg- 
ular proceedings in the administration of Jus- 
tice, and it was not yet determined what dispo- 
sition of the case should be made. And now, 
all — even Patience herself — were anxious to 
know in what respect Justice had conducted 
himself improperly. Liberty was quite sure 
that it was because Justice had been too rigor- 
orous in the enforcement of the penalties of 
imprisonment and death. He thought he could 
recollect several instances where the prisoners 
might have been left at large without danger 
to the state, when Justice persisted in keeping 
them in prison, or commanding them to exe- 
cution. 

As soon as it was understood that the ad- 
ministration of Justice had been in some re- 
spect imperfect and unsatisfactory, Mercy ven- 
tured to express her conviction to Charity, 



HIS REWARD. 275 

that it was because he had been too severe, and 
too inflexible in enforcing all the little points 
of law, without regard to fee or favor. She 
could readily recollect a good many cases where 
Justice seemed to have no regard whatever to 
the feelings of the prisoner, but appeared to be 
entirely destitute of sympathy and love ; and 
she was quite sure this was the occasion of de- 
lay. Soon the announcement was made, that 
the irregularity that appeared in the record 
had reference to the case of the prisoner who 
was violently carried away from the court, 
without receiving the regular sentence of the 
law. Now Justice had been expecting that 
this matter would be called up, for from the 
time it occurred he had been impressed that he 
had not been wholly without blame in the mat- 
ter ; and yet he could hardly think that his own 
personal character would suffer in the end ; but 
he had a great regard for his official reputation, 
and he had no doubt but the irregularity would 
be deemed a defect in his administration. 

As soon as the cause of detention was ex- 
plained, and Mercy perceived that it had re- 
spect to her own irregular interference with 
Justice's proceedings, and that it was likely to 



276 JUSTICE AND 

result in disadvantage to him, forgetting her 
own present position and name, she began to 
feel all the uncontrollable tenderness of her for- 
mer condition impelling her onward, and she 
fell prostrate and weeping before the throne, 
beseeching that upon herself might rest all the 
blame of the irregular proceedings. 

Justice instantly protested against any one 
interposing to screen him from the consequen- 
ces of his own demerits. He would not con- 
sent that Mercy should suffer on his ac- 
count ; for, said he, it was very appropriate for 
Mercy to do as she did in that case, so far as the 
bare fact of saving the penitent was concerned : 
it was only the irregularity of manner in which 
the thing was done that he supposed his admin- 
istration was complained of. And, as to that 
matter, ever since his reconciliation with Mer- 
cy, he had been fully convinced that she acted 
in good faith in the premises, and was wholly 
without blame. Upon myself, then, said Jus- 
tice, let the whole blame be laid. 

Now Charity was so delighted with this 
apology which Justice made for Mercy, that 
she could hardly restrain herself from rushing 
right up to him, and throwing her arms around 



HIS REWARD. 277 

his neck. But she governed her emotions, and 
showed her approbation by one of her sweetest 
smiles, and such a look of approval that made 
Justice almost blush. 

Mercy was commanded to rise and resume 
her station, which she immediately did, turning 
toward Justice, however, such a look of love 
and gratitude as words have no power to ex- 
press. And from that moment she had such af- 
fection and veneration for him as she would 
once have deemed utterly impossible for her to 
possess. And she feels now as if, instead of 
kissing only one of his cheeks, in her partial re- 
conciliation with him, she would kiss them both 
a hundred times over. 

Finally, on searching the records still further, 
it was found that the prisoner whom Justice had 
suffered to be borne out of court, had not only 
made a full confession of his guilt, but was really 
penitent, and thoroughly reformed ; and that he 
did in fact belong to that class of transgressors 
who might be pardoned with safety to the state, 
and with honor to the law ; and, furthermore, 
that a pardon had been in due form made out, 
and was then on its' way to court, but had, for 
some reason, been detained by the way. So 



278 JUSTICE AND 

the final decision of the case was, that, in view 
of all the circumstances, Justice had done well 
in the premises, notwithstanding a little irregu- 
larity, which related more to the letter of the 
law than to the spirit and intention of it ; and 
it was decreed that the administration of Jus- 
tice should be approved ; and that he -should be 
commended and rewarded for the uniform regu- 
larity and impartial equity of his proceedings ; 
and especially for his discreet and even jealous 
regard for the honor of the law, and the safety 
of the government. 

As for Mercy, there is no one who has a heart 
to blame her in the matter, because she did 
what every one would have done in her place. 
She only fulfilled her mission, and did in fact 
secure the intention of the special act which 
was in such cases made and provided. So the 
whole Divine Family are satisfied, and Justice 
and Mercy were never so dear to each other as 
now. 

It is decreed that Justice shall retain his 
name, but released from the labors of his for- 
mer vocation. He is appointed to the office of 
Prince Counselor for the Divine Family. It is 
understood, however, that there will be no ne- 



HIS REWARD. 279 

cessity hereafter for anything more than ju- 
dicious advice, since all judicial litigations will 
be dispensed with, as inappropriate for the 
heavenly state. His official ermine is to be of 
such a quality and kind as no earthly judges 
have ever been permitted to wear. His badge 
shall be a golden balance, and he shall carry a 
scepter made of Aaron's rod, with all its buds 
and flowers. 

Now it is surprising to observe what a trans- 
formation Justice appears to experience and 
exhibit, which, without any essential change in 
his character, nevertheless seems to change the 
whole expression of his countenance, and makes 
him look like one different from himself. It 
has been long suspected by some that Justice 
was more kind at heart than courteous in man- 
ners ; more tender in his feelings than soothing 
in his words. And Truth has frequently stated 
that it was the official position, and the una- 
voidable expression necessarily connected with 
his judicial labors, that have occasioned such a 
prejudice against Justice. 

The severe language, and the habitual frown 
which have characterized Justice in the lower 
sphere, were not so much an outward expres- 



280 JUSTICE AND 

sion of what dwelt within, as a mere external 
effect of what exists wholly without; as a dark 
shadow may rest upon the face of the fairest 
image, and clothe the sunniest expression with 
permanent gloom. 

Now, that Justice has to deal only with the 
amiable, the law-abiding, and the pure ; now, 
that his official employment is so entirely 
agreeable to himself, and so perfectly happy in 
its results upon others ; now, that there are no 
more gibbets and prisons, no more criminals 
and crimes, Justice wears a perpetual smile, ' 
and the tones of his voice are as gentle and 
pleasant as the voice of a fond mother soothing 
a beloved child. He is now a general favorite, 
and is greeted with smiling welcomes wherever 
he goes. 

But there is no one of the Divine Family who 
more unfeignedly admires Justice than Mercy 
herself. He seems to her view the dignified, 
holy impersonation of all the manly virtues, and 
the living exhibition of the divinest qualities 
that adorn the noblest soul. No one is afraid 
of him now. No one is less happy in his pres- 
ence. He not only adds pleasure to all the so- 
cieties he visits, but confers real respectability 



HIS REWARD. 281 

and dignity upon all with whom he associates. 
He moves with easy elegance from place to 
place, discourses with smiling serenity, and car- 
ries about with him such an air of unaffected 
truthfulness and goodness, that no one could 
wish he were in any respect unlike what 
he is. 

Yet, in all essential qualities, Justice retains 
his former character. He has the same natural 
abhorrence of injustice and corruption ; the 
same inflexible integrity of purpose ; and there 
is no reason to suppose that he would be other- 
wise than what he was formerly, if he were 
placed in the same position again. 

Justice is Justice everywhere ; but his de- 
veloped character, in one position, may appear 
very different from his manifestations in another 
position ; just as the same ray of light may ap- 
pear of different hues, as it passes through dif- 
ferent mediums. In the world of blessedness 
he never frowns ; in the world of sinfulness he 
seldom smiled. Here he was more revered than 
loved ; there he is equally loved and adored. 



AND THEIR NEW NAMES AND OFFICES. 

ANALYSIS. 

Virtue's Personal Appearance — More Admired than Formerly — 
The Explanation — More Commended than Courted — An Indispensa- 
ble Assistant — Shares the Glory and Joys of Others — The Presiding* 
Priestess — Her Vestals — Her peculiar Badge — Official Title — Tem- 
perance before the Throne— Appearance — A Necessary Transfor- 
mation — Present Appearance not Original — Necessity of being Dis- 
guised — How Adapted to her Earthly Mission — Illustration from the 
Incarnation of Jesus — Temperance in her Native Clime — Improved 
Appearance — Increased Admiration for her — Promoted to Office — 
Official Employment — A Beautiful Residence — Appropriate Badge 
— New Name. 



VIRTUE. 

"Believe the Muse, the wintry blast of death 
Kills not the buds of virtue ; no, they spread, 
Beneath the heavenly beams of brighter suns, 
Through endless ages, into higher powers." 



" Virtue 
Stands like the sun, and all which rolls around 
Drinks life, and light, and glory from her aspect." 

Byron. 

TEMPERANCE. 

" Fatal effects of luxury and ease ! 
"We drink our poison, and we eat disease, 
Indulge our senses at our reason's cost, 
Till sense is pain, and reason hurt or lost. 
Not so, O Temperance bland ! when ruled by thee 
'he brute's obedient, and the man is free." 

Mrs. Chandler. 



CHAPTER X. 

AND THEIR NEW NAMES AND OFFICES. 

THE next who receives com- 
mendation is Virtue. She approaches 
with a step of dignity, and with a look of inno- 
cence, that distinguish her from all the lovely 
sisterhood, and excite universal admiration. 
She has ever been the associate and the friend 
of all ; and she is now deservedly a favorite of 
all. If she was formerly regarded with respect- 
ful admiration, she is now as truly loved and 
adored. The unbending dignity which she 
displayed to earthly vision was altogether too 
divine to be duly appreciated ; and the stainless 
purity of both her speech and manners seemed 
too angelic for the lower sphere of sinfulness 
and sin. 

To unholy minds Virtue had always appeared 
too refined and too forbidding, and had usually 
been less ardently beloved than some of the 



286 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE, 

others associated with her. And yet but few 
were ever found who would jeopardize their 
own reputation by refusing to commend her. 
And she has generally been more revered than 
loved, and more commended than courted. 

But from the beginning Virtue has been in- 
dispensable to the general weal. Liberty could 
never have gained his final triumph but for her. 
Faith must have died, and Hope perished, but 
for her. Even Charity and Mercy must have 
fainted and fallen, but for Virtue's sustaining 
hand. Not one of the Divine Family could 
have succeeded without her. The triumph of 
all is in part the triumph of Virtue ; the honors 
and joys of all shall be shared with her. 

But, as the distinguishing honor, Virtue shall 
be the Presiding Priestess in the upper sanc- 
tuary, and her intimate friends and attendants 
here shall be her immaculate vestals there. She 
shall be honored with the most familiar fellow- 
ship with the Divine Holiness, and all the heav- 
enly seraphim shall be her attendants. Her 
badge shall be a golden censer, with a cloud of 
Calvary fragrance, together with a brilliant 
flame on an altar of sapphire. And her title 
henceforth shall be the Priestess Purity. 



THEIR NEW NAMES AND OFFICES. 287 

And now we notice Virtue's twin-sister Tem- 
perance, with her glowing, healthy cheek, and 
her admirable form. There is a natural fresh- 
ness in her appearance, and a habitual vigor in 
her movements, that are pleasing to every one. 
Yet she must undergo a personal transforma- 
tion. She is henceforth to have less of the 
earthly, and more of the heavenly, less of the 
material, and more of the spiritual displayed in 
her person ; less of the impulsive and energetic, 
and more of the serene and reflective possessing 
her spirit. 

The more of the material, and the less of the 
etherial that she has formerly exhibited, are 
now satisfactorily shown to have been the mere 
adaptation to effect the purposes of her earthly 
mission. The original transgression was origi- 
nal intemperance ; the craving and partaking 
of the hurtful and forbidden. And, ever since 
that first indulgence of sinful appetite, it has 
behooved the sister-twin of Virtue to become 
herself incarnate, that she might adapt her re- 
deeming efforts to the fleshly condition of those 
whom she has sought to bless. 

Hence, in the mission of Temperance to the 
lower sphere, disguised in her material form and 



288 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE, 

earthly dress, she appeared to be less the daugh- 
ter of the Divine Mother than others of the sis- 
terhood ; but it was the wise adaptation to the 
necessities of the case. While the rest of her 
associates had usually a higher and a more de- 
lightful labor, she condescended to busy herself 
about vulgar meats and drinks. Thus by her 
great humility, in stooping to the appetites and 
needs of poor humanity, she seemed by the as- 
sociation to be less divine, than in her own 
original sphere she is now proved to be. As 
Jesus, the perfect impersonation and the earthly 
exhibition of all that is beautiful and good, 
seemed to many merely earthly, when he lived 
upon the earth, but perfectly divine in his native 
heaven. 

Temperance, as well as Charity, or Liberty, 
or Truth, is manifestly of heavenly birth. And, 
in the final triumph, her earthly laid aside, and 
now her heavenly displayed, she blooms with 
all the loveliness of Charity or Faith, and car- 
ries herself with all the dignified serenity of her 
twin-sister Virtue. 

All now are satisfied, if not before, that with- 
out Temperance they could not have prevailed. 
Neither Charity nor Faith, nor Truth nor Lib- 



THEIR NEW NAMES AND OFFICES. 289 

erty, could have accomplished what they have 
performed without this sister's aid. And she 
is now, by general consent, deemed worthy of a 
proportional share in the glory of their success- 
fulness and joy. 

Temperance, in her native clime, her foot- 
steps pressing her native soil, no longer stoop- 
ing to the low necessities of poor, depraved hu- 
manity, — no longer veiling in her original 
brightness with the shrouds of earthly fashion, — 
no longer occupied with vulgar meats and 
drinks, the low necessities of incarnate spirituali- 
ties ; — Temperance, resuming her heavenly sta- 
tion, and beaming in the beauty of her pristine 
glory, now hears her commendation, and re- 
ceives her rich reward. 

Temperance shall henceforth be the happy 
Stewardess of all the crystal streams that gush 
and flow from the eternal throne. She shall be 
entrusted with the distribution of the ambrosial 
fruits that grow upon the tree of life, that give 
immortality of youth and fadeless bloom and 
beauty to all the inhabitants above. 

Truth and Liberty, with all the heavenly 
family, shall join their skillful hands to build for 
Temperance a living, fragrant bower under the 
M 19 



290 VIRTUE AND TEMPERANCE, 

shadow of the tree of life. Her distinguishing 
badge shall be a crystal Fountain in ceaseless 
play, surrounded with trees of various fruits and 
perennial flowers. And the name of Temper- 
ance shall be changed to Bliss. 

conclusion. 

Such is Divine Religion, the Mother of all the 
Virtues ; and such the offspring of divine ma- 
ternity. But however pleasing the ideal image- 
ry, however beautiful the plumage and drapery 
of thought, pure Religion enthroned in the 
heart, the Christian Virtues exhibited in the 
life, are lovelier far than Fancy's pencilings, 
more beautiful than poetic dreams. This Re- 
ligion — these Virtues — are more prized in heav- 
en than thrones and diadems are esteemed on 
earth. 

Amiable Reader ! may this Divine Religion 
be your daily adornment,, and your everlasting 
joy! May every virtue and every grace be 
your earthly accomplishment and your eternal 
bliss ! 

THE END. 



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